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Suture Zones

Suture Zone is a tectonic boundary zone, defined as a linear geological region where two formerly distinct continental lithospheric plates are joined following the cessation of subduction and the completion of continental collision, distinguished by the presence of remnants of obducted oceanic crust and mantle rocks, marking the sutured margin of an amalgamated orogen.

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Suture Zone

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295

Intraplate seismicity, reactivation of preexisting zones of weakness, alkaline magmatism, and other tectonism postdating continental fragmentation

Lynn R. Sykes · Reviews of Geophysics · 1978 · 740 citations

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Evolution of the Solonker suture zone: Constraints from zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotopic ratios and whole-rock Nd–Sr isotope compositions of subduction- and collision-related magmas and forearc sediments

B. Chen, Bor‐ming Jahn, Wei Tian · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · 2008 · 528 citations

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Sutures and shear zones in the Arabian-Nubian Shield

Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Robert J. Stern · Journal of African Earth Sciences · 1996 · 476 citations

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Age, geochemistry, and tectonic implications of a late Paleozoic stitching pluton in the North Tian Shan suture zone, western China

Bao‐Fu Han, Zhongjian Guo, Zhicheng Zhang et al. · Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2009 · 471 citations

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Clustering of Contact Zones, Hybrid Zones, and Phylogeographic Breaks in North America

Nathan G. Swenson, Daniel J. Howard · The American Naturalist · 2005 · 435 citations

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Authors

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    Ian Metcalfe

    University of New England, Australia

    6 publications · 1.2K citations

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    M. Grad

    University of Warsaw, Poland

    5 publications · 293 citations

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    T.R.K. Chetty

    National Geophysical Research Institute, India

    5 publications · 121 citations

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  4. MS
    M. Santosh

    China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

    5 publications · 212 citations

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    Taras Gerya

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    4 publications · 174 citations

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Institutions

459

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    14 h-index

    40 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    13 h-index

    38 publications

    2.8K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

    Beijing, China

    11 h-index

    34 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. Polish Academy of Sciences

    Warsaw, Poland

    9 h-index

    24 publications

    1.1K citations

  5. Curtin University

    Perth, Australia

    9 h-index

    12 publications

    986 citations

  6. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    678 citations

  7. National Geophysical Research Institute

    Hyderabad, India

    7 h-index

    22 publications

    527 citations

  8. Jilin University

    Changchun, China

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    968 citations

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  1. Tectonophysics

    19 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Tectonics

    14 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Geological Society London Special Publications

    14 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

    13 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. Geophysical Research Letters

    10 publications · 530 citations

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