suture
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joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories
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It sits within the topics Paleontology, Structural geology and Suture zones.
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- fault
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- Suture (geology)
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plate tectonics
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tectonics
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continent
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metre
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Great Britain
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International Standard Book Number
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kilometre
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paleontology
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plain
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igneous rock
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geophysics
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Trilobita
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fault
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OCLC, Inc.
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mechanical stress
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subduction
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orogeny
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deformation
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palaeogeography
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fold
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