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PROTOCONTINENT definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
protocontinent in American English (ˌproutouˈkɑntnənt) noun. Geology. an actual or hypothetical landmass that might later be enlarged into a major continent or broken up into smaller ones .
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PROTOCONTINENT Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Protocontinent definition: an actual or hypothetical landmass that might later be enlarged into a major continent or broken up into smaller ones.
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protocontinent - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
protocontinent (plural protocontinents). A landmass capable of becoming a continent. 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History , page 55:.
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protocontinent
ˈprotocontinent Geol. [f. proto- + continent n.] = supercontinent. Hence ˌprotocontiˈnental a.1958 L. King in Continental Drift (Univ. of Tasmania) 13 Recent studies..suggest once more the validity of continental drift, with two proto-continents Laurasia and Gondwana. 1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 2 Mar. 48...
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protocontinent, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun protocontinent is in the 1950s. OED's earliest evidence for protocontinent is from 1952, in Geologie en Mijnbouw.
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PROTOCONTINENT Definition & Meaning – Explained
A part of the Earth's crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents. fromcraton · A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which ...
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supercontinent
ˈsupercontinent Geol. [super- 6 c.] One of the large land masses that are thought to have existed in the geological past and from which two or more of the present continents are thought to be derived; = protocontinent. Cf. Gondwanaland, Laurasia, Pangæa.1963 Sci. Amer. Apr. 89/1 According to Wegener...
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The protocontinental growth of the Indian Shield and the antiquity of ...
It is suggested that the growth of the Indian Shield has taken place through nucleation, accretion and merger into three protocontinents named Dharwar, ...
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Protocontinent Definition & Meaning | YourDictionary
noun ... A landmass capable of becoming a continent ... Wiktionary ... Other Word Forms of Protocontinent ... Noun ... Singular ... protocontinent ... Plural ...
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plate tectonics: history of an idea.
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noticed the same thing and proposed that the continents were once compressed into a single protocontinent which he called Pangaea.
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protocontinent - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
Geologyan actual or hypothetical landmass that might later be enlarged into a major continent or broken up into smaller ones. proto- + continent 1955–60. ' ...
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Tawa hallae
and the Ischigualasto Formation Nesbit et al. (2009) observed that each was descended from a separate lineage, and inferred that the "South American" protocontinent
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Great Lakes tectonic zone
This gneissic terrane originally extended several hundred kilometers east to west, making it more of a protocontinent than a future Superior province belt During the formation of the GLTZ, the MRV protocontinent consumed the Superior province's oceanic crust as the subprovince came in from the south.
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proto-
proto- (prəʊtəʊ) before a vowel or h properly prot- (prəʊt), or with h (prəʊθ), repr. Gr. πρωτο-, combining form of πρῶτος first, which became πρωτ- before a simple, and πρωθ- before an aspirated vowel. In compounds already used in Greek, and many of later formation, the Greek practice (represented ...
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