protocontinent
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[edit]Noun
[edit]protocontinent (plural protocontinents)
- A landmass capable of becoming a continent.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:
- There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since.