Talk:Cimmerian Plate

Hunic Terranes

What is the relation of the Cimmerian Plate to the Hunic Terranes? Hunic has been mentioned and linked in several articles, but has no page. Isogolem 06:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Merge with the Continent of Cimmeria

the Continent of Cimmeria is inextricable with the early History of the eponymous Cimmerian Plate,
and since the referred subject in the article Cimmeria (continent) (started 02:52, 19 May 2007) is better discussed and illustrated in the older article (started 23:47, 4 October 2004)

I therefore propose that Cimmeria (continent) be MERGED with the Cimmerian Plate article —-— .:Seth_Nimbosa:. (talk • contribs) 06:50, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

• Strong oppose and being bold and closing per weak reasons. Every other continent has its own article as do the plates they are located on. It dosen't matter if the Cimmerian continent is inextricable or not. It is called complex geology and lots of other geologic history exists throughout the formation of continents and supercontinents. BT (talk) 23:28, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

@Volcanoguy: To my knowledge Cimmeria was a string of continental blocks (and therefore plates) but never a plate. It never was a continent either but is often referred to as such because Şengör introduced the concept and the name in the 1980s. Nota bene, I've also seen the usage of Tethys Plate, which would possibly make more sense (the Pacific Plate is not called the "Hawaiian Plate"). Additionally, today Cimmeria (continent) is long (but still incomplete), whilst Cimmerian Plate is short and unreferenced. I therefore propose a merge. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 09:28, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

There are also some factual errors on the page:

• "the Cimmerian orogeny was extended along the entire northern boundary of the plate"
  • The Cimmerian orogeny began when the continents collided with Eurasia, the plate was subducted under Eurasia without producing larger mountains
• "Most of Paleo-Tethys disappeared by c. 150 Ma. More mountains were raised as the northern edge of the China plates collided with eastern Laurasia. After it collided with Laurasia around 200 Ma (Early Jurassic), the Tethyan Trench formed on southern Cimmeria, subducting the Tethys Ocean which created island arcs and new mountain ranges in the area."
  • There was a trench were the oceanic crust of the Paleo-Tethys subducted under Eurasia but that was under the active margin of Eurasia, not the southern margin of Cimmeria.
• "The Tethys rift eventually extended westward to split Pangaea in two, and the growing Atlantic Ocean separated the northern supercontinent of Laurasia from the southern supercontinent Gondwana."
  • The CAMP opened the Central Atlantic and later what would become the Mediterranean (from west to east), not the "Tethys rift". To my knowledge the Tethys has nothing [directly] to do with the break-up of Pangaea.

--Fama Clamosa (talk) 10:10, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Etymology of Cimmerian

See: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cimmerian

Sorry I can't add this into the article--I am too sick today. So I'm capturing the info here to help someone else expand this article (and the other Cimmerian-related articles?) later.

Thanks for your help and understanding, --Geekdiva (talk) 21:05, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

comparison to African rift ?

Inexpertly, the rifting off of a thin coast-parallel strip of land (Cimerrian terrane from Gondwana) resembles the modern east African rift, albeit then along an east-west axis instead of now north-south.66.235.38.214 (talk) 09:36, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Inexpertly, the accretion of the Cimmerian terrane, onto southern Eurasia, due to a coast-parallel subduction zone (which then jumped outboard of the accreted linear terrane) resembles the accretion of the Intermontane Islands and Insular Islands onto the west-coast of North America 190-115Ma.66.235.38.214 (talk) 09:40, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Avalonia - Armorica - Cimmeria - China superterrane ?

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) 12:31, 18 October 2012 (UTC)