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accretion /ac·cre·tion/ (ah-kre´shun) 1. growth by addition of material. 2. accumulation. 3. adherence of parts normally separated.
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The bodies may
represent dismembered, complexly sheared and metamorphosed material
caught up in an accretionary wedge during the Appalachian Taconie
Orogeny (Williams, 1984). 250 Ma) Paleozoic accretionary orogen,
punctuated by accretion of small oceanic terranes and four major oblique
collisional events: Taconic, Salinic, Acadian and Alleghenian. The Barga Terrane is
interpreted as having formed in ocean-margin environment with active
island-and-Andean type magnetic arcs, rifted basis, accretionary wedges
and continental margins. |
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