Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America
<p style="text-align:justify;"> The western quarter of North America consists of accreted terranes—crustal blocks added over the past 200 million years—but the reason for this is unclear. The widely accepted explanation posits that the oceanic Farallon plate acted as a conveyor belt...
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Springer Nature
2013
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