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2. Carolina terrane - Wikipedia

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   The Carolina Terrane, also called the Carolina Superterrane or Carolinia, is an exotic terrane [1] running ~370 miles (600 km) approximately North-South from central Georgia to central Virginia in the United States.

3. Mars Hill Terrane - Wikipedia

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   The terrane is located at the junction between the Western Blue Ridge and the Eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. The unique lithology., [1] [2] [3] age, [4] and metamorphic history [5] of the MHT suggest an exotic terrane origin, unrelated to either the Laurentian or peri-Gondwanan terranes that make up most of

4. Terrane - Wikipedia

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   In geology, a terrane (/ t ə ˈ r eɪ n, ˈ t ɛr eɪ n /; [1] [2] in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its distinctive geologic history, which is different from the ...

5. List of tectonic plates - Wikipedia

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   Carolina plate – Exotic terrane from central Georgia to central Virginia in the United States; Churchill Craton – Geologic region in Canada (Canada) Farallon plate – Ancient oceanic plate that has mostly subducted under the North American plate (split into the Cocos, Explorer, Juan de Fuca, Gorda plates, Nazca plate, and Rivera plates)

6. Wrangellia terrane - Wikipedia

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   These basalts, extruded onto land over 5 million years about 230 million years ago, on top of an extinct Pennsylvanian and Permian island arc, constitute a large igneous province, currently exposed in a 2,500 km (1,553 mi) long belt. [5] Wrangellia collided and amalgamated with the Alexander Terrane by Pennsylvanian time. By the end of the ...

7. Musk's SpaceX preparing to launch tender offer in Dec at $135 ...

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   By Krystal Hu and Kenrick Cai (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to launch a tender offer in December to sell existing shares at a price of $135 per share, two sources familiar with the ...