Sentence examples for small terranes from inspiring English sources

It was formed by the welding together of many small terranes, the ages of which decrease away from the nucleus.

These deposits formed accreted terranes (smaller landmasses subsequently added onto continents) that became attached to the margins of some continents during Mesozoic and Cenozoic times.

In Curry County, the lower Rogue passes through the Galice Formation, metamorphosed shale and other rocks formed when a small oceanic basin in the merging Klamath terranes was thrust over other Klamath rocks about 155 million years ago.

Principal structural constituents were the Siberian (or North Asian) craton bounded on the east by a miogeosynclinal fold belt, a system of smaller ancient blocks, and a collage of terranes that had been attached to the craton from the east and southeast at different times.

These terranes now make up much of southern Europe and parts of eastern North America.

These isolated landmasses were later welded onto the margins of Pangea, forming accreted terranes.

This process of "accretionary tectonics" (or obduction) created more than 50 terranes of various ages in the Cordilleran region, including the Sonomia and Golconda terranes of the northwestern United States, both of which were accreted in the Early Triassic.

The gold-producing Witwatersrand beds of South Africa may correspond to the terranes of western Queen Maud Land.

As large tectonic plates continued to move during the Phanerozoic Eon, terranes of various sizes were displaced.

Cambrian deposits in all the terranes are chiefly sandstone and shale and include few or no carbonates.

So-called exotic terranes, geologic fragments that differ markedly in stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and paleontology from adjoining continental crust, were accreted to the margin of the North American plate.