[Rockhounds] Iceland may be the tip of a sunken continent

[Paul]

On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, Kreigh Tomaszewski posted,

“Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of a nearly
Texas-size continent called Icelandia that sank beneath the
North Atlantic Ocean about 10 million years ago, according
to a new theory proposed by an international team of
geophysicists and geologists.”

https://www.livescience.com/iceland-tip-of-lost-sunken-continent.html

The publications and PDF files are:

Foulger, G.R., Gernigon, L., and Geoffroy, L.,
2021, Icelandia, in Foulger, G.R., Hamilton, L.C.,
Jurdy, D.M., Stein, C.A., Howard, K.A., and Stein, S.,
eds., In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton:
New Ideas in Earth Science: Geological Society
of America Special Paper 553

PDF file at https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00704/81650/86124.pdf

Foulger, G.R., Doré, T., Emeleus, C.H., Franke, D.,
Geoffroy, L., Gernigon, L., Hey, R., Holdsworth,
R.E., Hole, M., Höskuldsson, Á. and Julian, B.,
2020. The Iceland microcontinent and a continental
Greenland-Iceland-Faroe ridge. Earth-Science
Reviews, 206, p.102926.

PDF - Researchgate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335099318_The_Iceland_Microcontinent_and_a_Continental_Greenland-Iceland-Faroe_Ridge

PDF - Semantic Scholar
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Iceland-Microcontinent-and-a-continental-Ridge-Foulger-Doré/6a1cec97d1dd7fdd9bca583e79ecd58b3f79f7ec

Foulger, G., Gernigon, L. and Geoffroy, L., 2021,
April. Icelandia. In EGU General Assembly Conference
Abstracts (pp. EGU21-13797).
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021EGUGA..2313797F/abstract

Yours,

Paul H.