EVOLUTION OF THE ALTAID TECTONIC COLLAGE AND PALEOZOIC CRUSTAL GROWTH IN EURASIA

SENGOR A., NATALIN B., BURTMAN V.

NATURE, vol.364, no.6435, pp.299-307, 1993 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 364 Issue: 6435
  • Publication Date: 1993
  • Doi Number: 10.1038/364299a0
  • Journal Name: NATURE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.299-307
  • Istanbul Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

A new tectonic model, postulating the growth of giant subduction-accretion complexes along a single magmatic arc now found contorted between Siberia and Baltica, shows that Asia grew by 5.3 million square kilometres during the Palaeozoic era. Half of this growth may have occurred by the addition of juvenile crust newly extracted from the mantle, supporting models of considerable continental growth continuing throughout the Phanerozoic eon.