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Microcontinent Accretion

Microcontinent Accretion is a tectonic process within the broader category of terrane accretion whereby a continental fragment smaller than a continent but larger than a microplate becomes emplaced onto a continental margin through crustal convergence and amalgamation.

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The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

Di‐Cheng Zhu, Zhidan Zhao, Yaoling Niu et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2010 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Assembly, Accretion and Breakup of the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Columbia Supercontinent: Records in the North China Craton

Guochun Zhao, Min Sun, Simon A. Wilde et al. · Gondwana Research · 2003 · 444 citations

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Pre-Carboniferous, episodic accretion-related, orogenesis along the Laurentian margin of the northern Appalachians

Cees R. van Staal, J B Whalen, Pablo Valverde-Vaquero et al. · Geological Society London Special Publications · 2009 · 408 citations

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The Argentine Precordillera: A Traveler from the Ouachita Embayment of North American Laurentia

William A. Thomas, Ricardo A. Astini · Science · 1996 · 289 citations

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The boring billion? – Lid tectonics, continental growth and environmental change associated with the Columbia supercontinent

Nick M.W. Roberts · Geoscience Frontiers · 2013 · 212 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. PB
    Peter Betts

    Monash University, Australia

    3 publications · 239 citations

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  2. SY
    Suzanne Y. O’Reilly

    Macquarie University, Australia

    2 publications · 53 citations

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  3. WL
    William L. Griffin

    Macquarie University, Australia

    2 publications · 53 citations

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    Martyn S. Stoker

    British Geological Survey, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 109 citations

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  5. PV
    Pablo Valverde-Vaquero

    Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Spain

    2 publications · 512 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Geological Survey of Canada

    Ottawa, Canada

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. The University of Adelaide

    Adelaide, Australia

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    342 citations

  3. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    841 citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    2K citations

  5. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    302 citations

  6. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    1.6K citations

  7. Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    75 citations

  8. Aarhus University

    Aarhus, Denmark

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    270 citations

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  1. Geological Society London Special Publications

    4 publications · 664 citations

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  2. Geology

    4 publications · 455 citations

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  3. Gondwana Research

    3 publications · 588 citations

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  4. Geological Society of America Bulletin

    3 publications · 64 citations

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  5. Nature

    2 publications · 81 citations

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