... process: (a) Triassic-Jurassic accretion within Panthalassa forming SAYBIA, a composite ribbon continent, and (b) Late Cretaceous collision of SAYBIA with North America. This model requires that a ... orogen is exotic. The exotic continental component of SAYBIA, Cassiar Platform, is distinguished from the autochthon on ... west-dipping subduction beneath the east-margin of SAYBIA. The related accretionary prism consists of imbricated shale, ... domain. Carbonatite complexes delineate the cryptic suture separating SAYBIA and the autochthon. Paleomagnetic and paleobotanical data place ...
Tópico(s): High-pressure geophysics and materials
2008 - Annual Reviews | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
... continent. This ribbon continent, referred to here as SAYBIA, originally extended south from eastern Siberia and was ∼ ... plate was accommodated by buckling (oroclinal orogeny) of SAYBIA, much like a derailing train, with scissored 'cars' ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geophysical Studies
2001 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters