Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cantabria (Mesozoic island)


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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 01:26, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Cantabria (Mesozoic island)

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I can't find evidence for the claims in this article. The major aspect of the geology around current Cantabria in the Mesozoic period seems to have been the Vasco-Cantabrian Basin or Basque-Cantabrian Basin. The rather passing mention in Walking with Dinosaurs seems insufficient to base an article on Fram (talk) 13:34, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete this island seems to be a fictionalization, here is a wikia article for more details. The Cantabrian basin (or its hyphenates) may be notable, as could the Soba Reef Area of the basin. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:08, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as unsupported in reliable sources. Geology_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula covers this fairly nicely: "In the Permian and into the Mesozoic there was extension tectonics. The Permian Autunian succession – Viñon Formation formed when basins were created by downwards normal faulting." In addition to the reference cited for that article section, a number of geology texts and papers relate the history of the Cantabrian zone, Cantabrian orocline or Cantabrian arc as being formed in the Variscan orogeny, i.e. before the Mesozoic. See, e.g., Buckling an orogen: The Cantabrian Orocline and Oroclinical bending and evidence against the Pangea megashear: The Cantabria-Asturias arc (northern Spain). I can find no mention of a Cantabria in reliable geologic sources as a separate island when Laurasia separated from Gondwana in the Mesozoic.  24.151.10.165 (talk) 17:46, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - NN fictional place. Bearian (talk) 01:22, 24 May 2017 (UTC)


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