The Appalachian orogen in North America is currently considered to be a Paleozoic accretion-type orogenic belt,or a collage,formed by collision of many ancient blocks between Laurentian and Gondwanan margins(Williams,...The Appalachian orogen in North America is currently considered to be a Paleozoic accretion-type orogenic belt,or a collage,formed by collision of many ancient blocks between Laurentian and Gondwanan margins(Williams,1979;Williams et al.,1988;van Staal et al.,2007).Recently,major progress has been made in understanding the characteristics and tectonic evolution of the outboard peri-Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan terranes of the Iapetus Ocean(van Staal et al.,2009,2012).展开更多
基金supported financially by the NSFC projects(Grant Nos.U1403291,41802074,41830216,41572052)projects of the China Geological Survey(Grant Nos.1212011120477,1212010611803,1212010811033,12120113096500,12120113094000 and DD20160123)+1 种基金the IGCP 662 project’Orogenic Architecture and Crustal Growth from Accretion to Collision’the IUGS Big Science Program’Deep-time Digital Earth(DDE)’.
文摘The Appalachian orogen in North America is currently considered to be a Paleozoic accretion-type orogenic belt,or a collage,formed by collision of many ancient blocks between Laurentian and Gondwanan margins(Williams,1979;Williams et al.,1988;van Staal et al.,2007).Recently,major progress has been made in understanding the characteristics and tectonic evolution of the outboard peri-Laurentian and peri-Gondwanan terranes of the Iapetus Ocean(van Staal et al.,2009,2012).
