Talk:Avalonia

message: According to my geology teacher Iceland is not a continent at all, it's not the same material.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.148.70.130 (talk) 11:32, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, I've removed it (sorry you had to wait so long). Mikenorton (talk) 22:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Iceland - a microcontinent" 

message: The link under Maps is dead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Squike (talk • contribs) 19:14, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps 

message: Inexpertly, the ancient terranes of Avalonia, Armorica, Cimmeria, and south & north China, may have formed a long super-terrane, stretching along, and forming, the (then-)northern coast of Gondwana.  Those terranes had been attached to Africa, Arabia, India, & Australia:
: http://s10.postimage.org/o10goj0rt/Avalonia_Armorica_Cimmeria_China_superterrane.png
66.235.38.214 (talk) 12:25, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avalonia - Armorica - Cimmeria - China superterrane ? 

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message: Hello,
Re the introduction
I have just changed two names in a sentence in the introduction’s 2nd paragraph: from “The Paleo-Tethys Ocean formed behind it, and the Rheic Ocean shrank in front.” to “The Rheic Ocean  formed behind it, and the Iapetus Ocean shrank in front.”
This article's second paragraph had: 'Avalonia ... eventually rifted off, becoming a drifting microcontinent. The Paleo-Tethys Ocean formed behind it, and the Rheic Ocean shrank in front.' 
But on my understanding of modern sources, that account mis-places the oceans. The Paleo-Tethys Ocean formed behind a different microcontinent in a different rift event (separation of the European Hunic terranes from Gondwana), at a later date - about fifty million years later. So, in an account of the rifting of Avalonia this account gets the Rheic Ocean the wrong way around: it was the Iapetus ocean that 'shrank in front' of the northwards drifting Avalonia, while what was formed and opening ever wider, in the rift behind the new microcontinent, was the Rheic Ocean. 
For example, see: 
‘[R]ifting of the Rheic Ocean took place along the northern margin of Gondwana in the mid- to Late Cambrian, by which time Iapetus was already a wide ocean. The terranes that separated from Gondwana as the ocean opened in the Early Ordovician, such as Avalonia and Carolinia, were in large part the same terranes that had accreted to this margin in the Late Neoproterozoic.' R.D. Nance et al. / Geoscience Frontiers 3(2) (2012) < https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1674987111001113/1-s2.0-S1674987111001113-main.pdf?_tid=3be6580e-1e8b-4119-86d1-9d5c30392b3a&acdnat=1520985008_4b35ed4e9fe28ad7e9bb7009c22c1271 > p 128.
'Throughout the Ordovician, the Rheic Ocean widened at the expense of Iapetus as the departing peri-Gondwanan terranes drifted northward toward Baltica and Laurentia. Replacement of the endemic fauna of these terranes by those of Baltic and Laurentian affinities by the end of the Middle Ordovician (e.g., Fortey and Cocks, 2003) suggests increasing proximity to these continents and a widening gap with Gondwana. Paleomagnetic data likewise suggest increasing separation from Gondwana, with Avalonia lying at least 2000 km to the north by the end of the Middle Ordovician (Hamilton and Murphy, 2004). This would necessitate a relatively rapid spreading rate (8-10 cm/y) for the opening Rheic Ocean, which suggests the involvement of slab pull (e.g., Murphy et al., 2006).’ Ibid.
‘[T]he Rheic Ocean was clearly one of the most important of the Paleozoic Era. It was formed with the separation of several ribbon terranes from the northern margin of Gondwana in the Early Ordovician, and widened at the expense of the Iapetus Ocean as the ribbon terranes, which separated the two oceans, drifted northward. Accretion of these terranes to, and the suturing of, Laurentia and Baltica by the Late Silurian effectively closed the Iapetus Ocean. Following this the Rheic Ocean lay between the paleocontinents of Laurussia and Gondwana, which were then separated by at least 4000 km.’ Ibid p 132-3. RoyAJac (talk) 05:41, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

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message: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68005838  cheers, Michael C. Price talk 00:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life