Sentence examples for allochthonous from inspiring English sources

As these fragments reached the subduction zone, they were sutured onto the Cordilleran belt of North America, forming what geologists refer to as allochthonous terranes (fragments of crust displaced from their site of origin).

Allochthonous (transported) continental blocks thus were emplaced in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela at the end of the Silurian Period (about 419 million years ago).

Since the original widget went online, Mr. Sanderson has added a version that color codes words according to how common they are, and the geology blog Highly Allochthonous has wondered whether the art world isn't even more in need of a radical vocabulary reduction diet.