Published 2023-04-01
“…We calculated the areal proportion of juvenile crust and divided the orogens into five types: (i) highly juvenile (with >70% juvenile crust); (ii) moderately juvenile (70–50%; e.g., the Altaids with ~58% and the North
American Cordillera with ~54%); (iii) mixed juvenile and reworked (50–30%; e.g., the Newfoundland Appalachians with ~40% and the Lachlan Orogen with ~31%); (iv) reworked (30–10%); (v) highly reworked (<10%; e.g., the Tethyan Tibet (~3%), Caledonides (~1%), Variscides (~1%), and the Qinling-Dabie Orogen (<1%)). …”
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