An exotic terrane is a piece or fragment of continent that has broken off from its parent continent and become accreted to another continent. Thus it is exotic to the continent that it has become a member of, and is not native to that continent and did not become accreted to the continent as a newly formed terrane, but as an existing one from another continent. Dymaxion map by Buckminster Fuller shows land mass with minimal distortion as only one continuous continent A continent (Latin continere, to hold together) is a large continuous land mass. ... A terrane in paleogeography is an accretion that has collided with a continental nucleus, or craton but can be recognized by the foreign origin of its rock strata. ...