Terrane accretion

Percival, J., McNicoll, V., Bailee, A. 2006. Strike-slip Juxtaposition of ca. 2.72 Ga Juvenile arc and >2.98 Ga continent margin sequences and its implications for Archean terrane accretion, western Superior Province, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 895-927. 

White, D. J., Mussachio, G., Sol, S. Lithoprobe Western Superior Working Group 2001. Evidence for subduction processes and terrane accretion in the Archean Western Superior Province, Canada results from combined LITHOPROBE deep seismic studies. In Cassidy, K. F., Dunphy, J. M. VAN Kranendonk, M. J. (eds) 4th International Archaean Symposium, 24-28 September 2001, Extended Abstracts. AGSO-Geoscience Australia, Record, 2001/37, 539. 

Kusky, T. M. 1998. Tectonic setting and terrane accretion of the Archean Zimbabwe craton. Geology, 26, 163-166. 

Wilde, S. A., Middleton, M. F. Evans, B. J. 1996. Terrane accretion in the southwestern Yilgarn Craton evidence from a deep seismic crustal profile. Precambrian Research, 78, 179-196. 

Friend, C.R.L., Nutman, A.P., and McGregor, V.R., 1988. Late Archaean terrane accretion in the Godthab region, southern west Greenland. Nature, 335, 535-8. 

Bradshaw JD (1987) Terrane boundaries and terrane displacement in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica Some problems and constraints. In Leitch EC, Schreibner E (eds) Terrane accretion and orogenic belts. Geophysical Monograph, vol. 42. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp 199-205... 

Murphy, J.B. and Keppie, J.D. (1998) Late Devonian palinspastic reconstruction of the Avalon-Meguma terrane boundary Implications for terrane accretion and basin development in the Appalachian Orogen. Tectonophysics, 284 221-231. 

Ben-Avraham Z., Nur A., Jones D., and Cox A. (1981) Continental accretion from oceanic plateaus to allochthonous terranes. Science 213, 47-54. 

Miller J. D. and Christensen N. 1. (1994) Seismic signature and geochemistry of an island arc a multidisciplinary smdy of the Kohistan accreted terrane, northern Pakistan. J. Geophys. Res. (B) 99, 11623-11642. 

Mafic Triassic Accreted Terranes in the North American Cordillera... 

The Japanese islands are essentially composed of a series of terranes that have been accreted to the continental margin of the Eurasian plate during the past 400 Myr. These terranes consist of trench-hlling terrigenous sediments with variable quantities of accreted oceanic crust that are intruded and partly overlain by the products of subsequent subduction-related volcanism. Within Japan the ages of the accreted complexes become younger from north to south and from west to east (Kimura et ai, 1994). However, relatively little is known about the trace element chemistry of these oceanic accreted terranes. 

Figure 15 Map showing North American accreted oceanic terranes including the oceanic plateau sequences discussed in the text (after Tardy et al, 2001 Condie, 2001).

Jones G., Sano H., and Valsamijones E. (1993) Nature and Tectonic setting of accreted basalts from the Mine terrane central Japan. J. Geol Soc. London 150, 1167-1181. 

Pallister J. S., Budahn J. R., and Murchey B. E. (1989) Pillow basalts of the Angayucham terrane—oceanic plateau and island crust accreted to the Brooks Range. J. Geophys. Res 94, 15901-15923. 

Tardy M., Lapierre H., Struik L. C., Bosch D., and Brunet P. (2001) The influence of mantle plume in the genesis of the Cache Creek oceanic igneous rocks implications for the geodynamic evolution of the inner accreted terranes of the Canadian Cordillera. Can. J. Earth Sci. 38, 515-534. 

The second period of cratonic development (onset c. 3.1 Ga) was viewed by de Wit and coworkers (de Wit et al. 1992 de Wit Hart 1993) as a period of continental growth through a combination of tectonic accretion of smaller crustal terranes and subduction-related igneous and tectonic processes. Craton development culminated... 

Babuska, V. Plomerova, J. 1989. Seismic anisotropy of the subcrustal lithosphere in Europe another clue to recognition of accreted terranes In HillhouSE, J. W. (ed.) Deep Structure and Past Kinematics of Accreted Terranes. Geophysical Monograph, American Geophysical Union, 50, 209-217. 

As alluded to above, in the western Superior craton a strong case is building for c. 2.7Ga lateral interaction of distinct crustal nuclei for example, the North Caribou and Winnipeg River terranes (e.g. Pereival et al. 2001h). It is remarkable, however, that even in this more compelling case for lateral accretion we lack... 

Hoffman, P. F. 1991. On accretion of granite-greenstone terranes. In Robert, F., Sheahan, P. A. Green, S. B. (eds) Nona Conference on Greenstone Gold and Crustal Evolution, Val d Or. Geological Association of Canada Special Publications, 32-45. 

The rocks of northern Victoria Land are cut by several northwest-trending fault zones including the Leap-Year, Lanterman, and Wilson faults in Fig. 4.2. These fault zones define the Wilson, Bowers, and Robertson Bay terranes. The juxtaposition of unrelated geologic features on opposite sides of these boundary faults suggests that they are major dislocations in the continental crust of northern Victoria Land and that they may represent sutures between accreted terranes. 

Accretion of suspect or allochthonous terranes involving significant strike-slip motion as well as thrusting along the terrane boundaries... 

What is the origin of the accreted terranes of northern Victoria Land (Sections 4.3. 6) ... 

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