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Gathering, usually by being sticky, like fly-paper, or
having some force of attraction, like gravity.
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Where do accreted terran's form?
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Use batholith and accreted terrane in separate sentences?
There is more than one batholith in California. You can find accreted terrane in northern states.
How does a geologist determine if a rock is part of an accreted terrane?
The chunks of lithosphere that are scraped off of subducting plates and added to the edge of a continent are called accreted terranes!
What do you mean by a primitive meteorite?
a meteorite that is essentially unchanged since it first condensed and accreted in the solar nebula some 4.6 billion years ago
The Indian subcontinent is an accreted crustal block known as .?
terrane
What are 3 different kinds of solar satellites?
Artificial, Captured and Accreted
Why is the Earth's crust not a gas?
Earth accreted from solid, heavier matter.
How do you use terrane in a sentence?
This is when a bit one tectonic plate breaks off and sticks to (accretes) to another plate. Here are some sentences.There is an area of accreted terrane on nearly every tectonic plate.We studied accreted terranes in class, and I thought the teacher said "terrain."An accreted terrane keeps the characteristics of the original plate rather than taking on new ones.
What are terranes?
A terrane is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted
What do geologists call small accreted crustal fragments that have a geologic history distinct from adjacent blocks?
Terrane
What is the process of accretion?
This is when a bit one tectonic plate breaks off and sticks to (accretes) to another plate. Here are some sentences.There is an area of accreted terrane on nearly every tectonic plate.We studied accreted terranes in class, and I thought the teacher said "terrain."An accreted terrane keeps the characteristics of the original plate rather than taking on new ones.
What are Accreted or Exotic Terrains?
Part of the lithosphere that comes off when a plate collides into another plate, and is added to it. This often happens when an oceanic plate subducts under a continental plate. As this happens, land masses such as islands are scraped off the top of the subduction plate and added to the overriding plate.
