Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world.
It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex.
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Earth’s crust.
This resulted in the formation of a thick continental crust in the ocean, which has now been declared a newly discovered primitive microcontinent.
, a team of scientists based in the UK and Sweden, reconstructed the plate tectonic movements that would have occurred in the area around the Davis Straight some 33 to 61 million years ago.
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It has now been christened the Davis Strait proto-microcontinent.
According to the experts, studying this new landmass and its formation will help improve broader understanding of similar geographic structures.
“Our identified mechanism of microcontinent formation may be widely applicable to other microcontinents around the globe,” the team wrote in their paper.
“And further study is merited to understand the role of plate motion changes and transpression in microcontinent calving.”
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