Journal Article10.1038/288329A0
Cordilleran suspect terranes
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TL;DR: The North American Cordillera is made up of "suspect terranes" as discussed by the authors, which are allochthonous to the North American continent and seem to have been swept from far reaches of the Pacific Ocean before collision and accretion into the Cordilleran margin mostly in Mesozoic to early Cenozoic time.
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Abstract: Over 70% of the North American Cordillera is made up of ‘suspect terranes’. Many of these geological provinces are certainly allochthonous to the North American continent and seem to have been swept from far reaches of the Pacific Ocean before collision and accretion into the Cordilleran margin mostly in Mesozoic to early Cenozoic time.
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