Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America.
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, sweeping terranes into the continental margin...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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2013
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