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During the 1980s geological and geophysical investigation showed that large parts of the North American Cordillera are characterized by the welding of “allochthonous tectono-stratigraphic terranes” onto the North American continent. In the following years, a large number of terranes have been identified in other regions around the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere on Earth. It is now known that most mountain ranges including the Appalachians, Alps, and Himalayas are largely constructed of allochthonous terranes.
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Frisch, W., Meschede, M., Blakey, R.C. (2022). Terranes. In: Plate Tectonics. Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88999-9_9
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