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- noun a
landmass which is not small enough to be considered anisland but not big enough to be considered acontinent
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Examples
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A chart labeled cravat — microcontinent grant popped up on a second monitor screen.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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It was one of a handful of similar outposts on the microcontinent, all in a temporary state of disuse.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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Sooner or later, of course, an inspection team would come to the remote, marginal microcontinent to do an eyeball evaluation of the crop — at which point the secret operation would be forced to shut down.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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Hildebrand et al. present a study on Wopmay orogen - a nearly two-billion-year-old belt of rocks that formed when the leading edge of the Slave continent, now located in northwestern Canada, was pulled beneath a microcontinent, which contained a volcanic regime similar to the present-day Ring of Fire.
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By the same reasoning, the bifurcation of Avalonian species from North African ones around 450 million years ago is a sign that a block of crust consisting of Newfoundland and southern Britain had rifted waway from the larger African landmass, forming a distinct and isolated microcontinent which for obvious reasons is usually called Avalonia.
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