Talk:Geology of Europe

Components
Stub to be replaced by future article; first, before writing anything, I'll sketch what my memory says: regarding Europe as a continent is geologically justifyable: if we reverse our mental E. Mainland vs. Scandinavia dichotomy to say that Scandinavia is the "real mainland" and the rest of Europe fragments collected from elsewhere. If my remembrance is correct, Europe consist of the Qaþ Rursus 13:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * the Baltica continent - Scandinavia, Balticum, Russia, and Northern Poland/Germany,
 * Avalonian fragments - England, Ireland, Denmark (??), Netherlands, Northern Germany, etc.,
 * Laurentian (North American) fragments - Western Norway and Scotland,
 * Gondwana Fragments - Spain, Italy??, Malta, possibly belonging to the Cimmerian Arc,
 * Neo-Tethys Ocean floor - the Pyrenees/Alps/Appenines/Balcan Alps/Carpatian complex,
 * The Turkey part of the Cimmerian Arc originating from Gondwana,

More Tectonics
This article need to conform more closely with modern plate tectonics. Discussion of a "Baltic continent" is absurd in that context. The modern plate is the Eurasian Plate. The Baltic "continent" is presently simply a crustal block or craton that is part of this modern day plate, as well as part of the continent of Eurasia.

I propose that this article concentrate on topographic features (and perhaps sedimentary features) with some discussion of tectonics, but with a link to the Eurasian Plate article as the main article on this aspect of European geology. Tmangray (talk) 16:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)