Greater Adria

English Etymology From en greater Adria. From being first discovered in researching the geologic region called Adria. Washington Post, "You may have visited the long-lost continent of Greater Adria without even knowing it", Kayla Epstein, 24 September 2019 Proper noun Greater Adria en paleogeography paleogeology 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. en continent microcontinent paleocontinent paleomicrocontinent en 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 region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic Gondwana Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X19302230 80 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 portions now folded and thrusted in circum-Adriatic orogens), Iberia, and the Briançonnais continental fragment, and the Valais Ocean between the Briançonnais fragment and Europe 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.009 en November 11, 2020 Sonia Yeung; Marnie Forster; Emmanuel Skourtsos; Gordon Lister Evidence for the Late Cretaceous Asteroussia event in the Gondwanan Ios basement terranes Solid Earth https://se.copernicus.org/preprints/se-2020-186/ 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. European Geosciences Union preprint en 2021 Ágnes Király; Francesca Funiciello; Fabio A. Capitanio; Claudio Faccenna Dynamic interactions between subduction zones Global and Planetary Change 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103501 July Along most of the Alpine subduction the European plate subducted below Greater Adria, however, towards the west, Greater Adria under-thrusted the European margin forming the proto-Apennine slab Usage notes Before accreting to Laurasia, the microcontinent of Iberia rifted from Greater Adria. It now forms the Alps, Apennines, the Balkans, Anatolia, the Caucasus. Including the Iberian microcontinent, it also now forms Iberia, the Pyrenees, and Occitania. CNN, "A lost continent has been found under Europe", Ashley Strickland, 23 September 2019 Forbes, "Goodbye Atlantis, Hello ‘Greater Adria’. A Lost Continent Has Been Mapped By Geologists", Jamie Carter, 15 September 2019 National Geographic, "Lost continent revealed in new reconstruction of geologic history", Robin George Andrews, 11 September 2019 References Further reading