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Greater Adria

Greater Adria proper noun: a Greenland-sized paleomicrocontinent in the Tethys Ocean that rifted from the north of Africa portion of the supercontinent of Gondwana and accreted to the south of Europe portion of the supercontinent of Laurasia, and thence subducted.

Proper noun

Greater Adria

  1. A Greenland-sized paleomicrocontinent in the Tethys Ocean that rifted from the north of Africa portion of the supercontinent of Gondwana and accreted to the south of Europe portion of the supercontinent of Laurasia, and thence subducted.
    • A northwestern ocean basin system was genetically related to the Atlantic Ocean, opened in Middle to Late Jurassic time, and is known as the Alpine Tethys Ocean, which include multiple branches, such as the Piemonte-Liguria Ocean between Greater Adria (i.e. modern Adria and the its restored...2019, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen, Trond H. Torsvik, Stefan M. Schmid, Liviu C. Maţenco, Marco Maffione, Reinoud L.M. Vissers, Derya Gürera, Wim Spakman, “Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean...
    • In their reconstruction model, the Ios basement, along with other tectonic units in the Cycladic islands and Crete, are all part of a subducted Greater Adria continental ribbon.2020 November 11, Sonia Yeung, Marnie Forster, Emmanuel Skourtsos, Gordon Lister, “Evidence for the Late Cretaceous Asteroussia event in the Gondwanan Ios basement terranes”, in Solid Earth...

Origin of Greater Adria

From greater + Adria. From being first discovered in researching the geologic region called Adria.

Questions about Greater Adria

What does Greater Adria mean?
Greater Adria means a Greenland-sized paleomicrocontinent in the Tethys Ocean that rifted from the north of Africa portion of the supercontinent of Gondwana and accreted to the south of Europe portion of the supercontinent of Laurasia, and thence subducted.
What part of speech is Greater Adria?
Greater Adria is a proper noun.

Words near Greater Adria in the dictionary

  1. greatens
  2. greater
  3. Greater Accra
  4. greater adjutant
  5. greater adjutants
  6. Greater Adria
  7. greater alar cartilage
  8. greater alar cartilages
  9. Greater Antillean
  10. Greater Antilleans
  11. Greater Antilles

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