Greater Adria English

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Greater Adria properNoun

— (paleogeography, paleogeology) A Greenland-sized paleo-microcontinent in the Neo-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. Before accreting to Laurasia, the microcontinent of Iberia rifted from Greater Adria. What was once Greater Adria now forms the Alps, Apennines, the Balkans, Anatolia, the Caucasus. Including the Iberian microcontinent, it also now forms Iberia, the Pyrenees, and Occitania.

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