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See Accretion (of a discount.
accretion The addition of land through natural causes, such as gradual silting.You will often see accretion used to also describe the addition of land because of receding waters, but this is more properly called dereliction.How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The bodies may
represent dismembered, complexly sheared and metamorphosed material
caught up in an accretionary wedge during the Appalachian Taconie
Orogeny (Williams, 1984). 250 Ma) Paleozoic accretionary orogen,
punctuated by accretion of small oceanic terranes and four major oblique
collisional events: Taconic, Salinic, Acadian and Alleghenian. The Barga Terrane is
interpreted as having formed in ocean-margin environment with active
island-and-Andean type magnetic arcs, rifted basis, accretionary wedges
and continental margins. |
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