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Terranes: Geologic term referring to a region with distinctive characteristics such as rocks, minerals, and structures
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- plural of terrane
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These terranes represent a variety of tectonic environments.
There are four distinct terranes from west to east.
Cratons consist primarily of two alternating types of terranes.
Almost half of the terranes consist of alkaline granites.
A large transform fault separated the two terranes.
Those terranes which are the full thickness of the lithosphere are called microplates.
It also includes a variety of exotic terranes.
Stonehammer park itself is made of many terranes and has a complicated geologic past.
These oceanic rises are probably future accreted terranes.
Most of the land is made of terranes that have been accreted onto the margin.
They are also following major fault boundaries separating geologic terranes.
The presence of these large terranes has important implications for the history of the planet.
Large crustal blocks broken off from tectonic plates are called terranes.
Tectonostratigraphic terranes and tectonic evolution of Mexico.
Mélange occurrences are associated with thrust faulted terranes in orogenic belts.
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During the Proterozoic terranes were accreted onto the province.
The belt has been intruded by granitic rocks and is also surrounded by granitic terranes.
Some applications of paleomagnetic evidence to reconstruct histories of terranes have continued to arouse controversies.
They are thought to have formed at ancient oceanic spreading centers and island arc terranes.
The craton is a composite of several different terranes of Archaean metasediments.
Felsic granitoids are the most prevalent rock type in Archean terranes.
The resulting collision of terranes and continents has formed the Iranian high plateau.
The Lhasa terrane is the farthest south of these terranes.
The collision between Laurentia and Avalonian terranes is actually more complex than described above.
It is positioned as a small wedge between the larger Idefjorden and Telemarkia terranes.
Several Newfoundland Appalachian terranes converge in the southwest corner of the island.
These new observations endorse the emergence of complex arc magmatism in Neoarchean terranes.
Cathaysia was a microcontinent or a group of terranes that rifted off Gondwana during the Late Paleozoic.
Much of western North America is composed of these accreted terranes.
The current boundary between these terranes is known as the Great Lakes tectonic zone GLTZ.
It is now fragmented into the Siletz and Crescent terranes.
Two contrasting metamorphic terranes can be recognized in northwestern Cape Breton Island.
The Teslin fault was an active terrane boundary during accretion of terranes onto North America.
Avalonian terranes accreted to the eastern margin of Laurentia during the Late to Middle Devonian.
There are exceptions of however, such as exotic terranes.
These two halves of terranes were separated by Paleo-Tethys Ocean.
Titanite can also be used as a U-Pb geochronometer, specifically in metamorphic terranes.
As the continent drifted West, terranes were accreted onto the west coast.
Mineral resources in the belt are varied, as is typical of most greenstone terranes.
After the subduction, the two terranes were sutured under the Quetico belt.
For more information about such faults, see the article on terranes.
Ma in the Tasiusarsuaq orogeny, although these terranes were affected by Neoarchaean folding and deformation.
The Sveconorwegian orogen of southern Scandinavia, setting, petrology and geochronology of polymetamorphic high-grade terranes.
As the continent drifted West, accretion of various terranes onto the west coast occurred.
The older rocks include meta-sediments and older gneissic basement belonging to different Proterozoic terranes.
It contains all the main terranes that make up New Zealand 's basement.
Ma terranes around the Godthåbsfjord, mostly north of Nuuk, were accreted along the Iivinnguit fault.
Ultramafic bodies in the Chugach, Alexander, and Wrangellia terranes and Gravina assemblage underlie local highs.
These terranes were covered by the basalts of the Crescent Formation ( part of Siletzia ).
These fragments from elsewhere are called terranes sometimes, " exotic " terranes.
