The addition of a fragment of crust, or terrane, geologically distinct from the continent it collides with, welded onto a continental margin as an intervening ocean basin closes through subduction. Much of the western margin of North America is built from a patchwork of terranes accreted over hundreds of millions of years.
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1. Terrane (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia infobox 'Lead section' = 'In geology, a terrane (; in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) i...' on 'Terrane'View the Source 2. Terrane - Wikipedia
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The concept of tectonostratigraphic terrane developed from studies in the 1970s of the complicated Pacific Cordilleran orogenic margin of North America
Borneo (Wikipedia)
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Borneo was formed through Mesozoic accretion of microcontinental fragments, ophiolite terranes and island arc crust onto a Paleozoic continental core.
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