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Oceanic-continental convergence and creation of accretionary wedge Stages of accretion through time with accretionary wedge and volcanic island arc. In geology, accretion is a process by which material is added to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone, frequently on the edge of existing continental landmasses.
Pelagic sediments – typically immediately overlying oceanic crust of the subducting plate; Trench sediments – typically turbidites that may be derived from: Oceanic, volcanic island arc; Continental volcanic arc and cordilleran orogen; Adjacent continental masses located along strike (such as Barbados).
No more additional growth of subduction-accretion complexes at the southern end of the Kipchak arc due to abrupt influx of clastic materials at the southern end of the Kipchak arc and decrease in subduction-related magmatism. [28] See Figure 5C. Late Devonian: 367-362 A continental crust was formed due to subduction-accretion and arc magmatism ...
Dispersal of supercontinents is caused by the accumulation of heat underneath the crust due to the rising of very large convection cells or plumes, and a massive heat release resulted in the final break-up of Paleopangea. [18] Accretion occurs over geoidal lows that can be caused by avalanche slabs or the downgoing limbs of convection cells.
Tertiary crust is the most differentiated type of crust and so has a composition vastly different to that of the bulk Earth. [16] The tertiary crust contains over 20% of the abundance of incompatible elements, which are elements with a size or charge that prevent them from being included in mineral structure. [16]
The isotopic data suggests that the scale of the continental growth due to felsic crust accretion was large during 2700–2600 Ma and 2560–2520 Ma, leading to the large-scale greenstone volcanism at that time. [13] The eastern block records the 2 latest major accretion events occurring in 2700 Ma and 2560 Ma with massive continental growth. [22]
The team believes, according to Science Alert, that the stretching direction varied by up to 65 degrees, which may have allowed the extensive thinning of the continental crust.
Melt production and accretion of melt onto continental crust in a subduction zone [1]. A subduction zone is a region of the Earth's crust where one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate; oceanic crust gets recycled back into the mantle and continental crust gets produced by the formation of arc magmas.