Sentence examples for suture zones from inspiring English sources
The so-called Sargur schist belts within the Peninsular gneiss may be the oldest suture zones in the Indian subcontinent.
However, elongated conductors, related to suture zones, can be observed in this interval of depths.
The Tethys margin in central and eastern Asia is comprised of continental terranes separated by suture zones, some of which remain cryptic.
The interpreted candidates for lower crustal eclogites indicate that there may be a link between eclogite bodies and continental suture zones in the Barents Sea, off mid-Norway, in the Newfoundland Appalachians and in the Yilgarn Craton, western Australia.
These tectonic zones are separated from each other by some structural elements of transform faults or suture zones as shown in Fig. 1 (Yılmaz et al., 1995; Yiğitbaş et al., 1999).
In this study, we present geochemistry, zircon U Pb geochronology and Lu Hf isotope data from a suite of magmatic rocks sampled from the region of confluence of two major Paleoproterozoic suture zones in the NCC — the Inner Mongolia Suture Zone (IMSZ) and the Trans-North China Orogen (TNCO).
The main Hercynian suture zone of the collided plates extends from the south side of Brittany to the Massif Central.
To the east it continues into Mongolia and there unites with the circum-Altaid suture zone coming from the west i.e., from the Tien Shan.
The main suture zone, which passes across central Ireland and along the England-Scotland border, separates the two continental blocks that have different sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks, fossils, and mineralization and different stages of evolution.
The later one collided along a suture zone farther to the north, along the present-day Ma River, during the early Carboniferous and caused a major south-directed deformation that included considerable thrusting.
The earthquake and its aftershocks were the result of thrust faulting (i.e., compression-driven fracturing) in the Indus-Yarlung suture zone, a thin east-west region spanning roughly the length of the Himalayan ranges.
