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- Wrangellia_Terrane abstract "The Wrangellia Terrane is a geologic concept encompassing a large arc of terrain extending from the south-central part of the U.S. state of Alaska through southwestern Yukon and along the Coast of British Columbia in Canada. Although not generally accepted, some workers contend that Wrangellia extends southward to Oregon.The term Wrangellia is confusingly applied to all of: the Wrangell(ia) Terrane alone; a composite terrane (CT) consisting of the Wrangell Terrane, Peninsular Terrane, and other rock units that were not originally part of the North American craton; and a composite terrane which also includes the Alexander Terrane. Earlier workers sometimes used the term, \"Talkeetna Superterrane,\" to describe Wrangellia.Rocks of Wrangellia (the individual terrane, not the CT) were originally created in the Pennsylvanian to the Jurassic somewhere, but probably near the equator, in the Panthalassic Ocean off of the west coast of the North American craton as island arcs, oceanic plateaus, and rock assemblages of the associated tectonic settings. Although composed of many different rocks types, of various composition, age, and tectonic affinity, it is the late Triassic flood basalts that are the defining unit of Wrangellia. 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.Wrangellia collided and amalgamated with the Alexander Terrane by Pennsylvanian time. By the end of the Triassic Period, the Peninsular Terrane had also joined the Wrangellia CT. A subduction zone existed on the west side of Wrangellia. Seafloor rocks too light to be subducted were instead compressed againgst the western edge of Wrangellia; these rocks are now known as the Chugach Terrane. A complex fault system, known as the Border Ranges Fault, is the modern expression of the suture zone between Wrangellia and Chugach Terranes. Over time, plate tectonics moved this amalgamation of crust generally northeastward into contact with the North American continental margin. The Wrangellia CT collided with and docked to North America by Cretaceous time. Strike-slip displacement, with Wrangellia travelling northward, continued after docking, although the amount of post-accretion displacement is controversial.".
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- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageLength "4011".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageOutDegree "42".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageRevisionID "704547909".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Accretion_(geology).
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Alaska.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_Terrane.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Basalt.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia_Coast.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Abyssal_plains.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Coast_of_British_Columbia.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flood_basalts.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Large_igneous_provinces.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Plateaus_of_the_Pacific_Ocean.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Terranes.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Triassic_volcanism.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Volcanic_plateaus.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Volcanism_of_Alaska.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Volcanism_of_British_Columbia.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Category:Volcanism_of_Yukon.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Chugach_Terrane.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Fault_(geology).
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Flood_basalt.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Island_arc.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Jurassic.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Large_igneous_province.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Laurentia.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Oceanic_plateau.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Oregon.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Panthalassa.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Peninsular_Terrane.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvanian_(geology).
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Permian.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Plate_tectonics.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Terrain.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Terrane.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Triassic.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink U.S._state.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Volcanology_of_Canada.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Volcanology_of_Northern_Canada.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Volcanology_of_Western_Canada.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Wrangell_Terrane.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLink Yukon.
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLinkText "Wrangellia Terrane".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLinkText "Wrangellia composite terrane".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLinkText "Wrangellia flood basalts".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wikiPageWikiLinkText "Wrangellia".
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- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Abyssal_plains.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Coast_of_British_Columbia.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Flood_basalts.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Large_igneous_provinces.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Plateaus_of_the_Pacific_Ocean.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Terranes.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Triassic_volcanism.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Volcanic_plateaus.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Volcanism_of_Alaska.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Volcanism_of_British_Columbia.
- Wrangellia_Terrane subject Category:Volcanism_of_Yukon.
- Wrangellia_Terrane hypernym Concept.
- Wrangellia_Terrane point "59.984 -140.588".
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Event.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Coast.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Event.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Formation.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Fragment.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Hazard.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Landform.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Redirect.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type Supervolcano.
- Wrangellia_Terrane type SpatialThing.
- Wrangellia_Terrane comment "The Wrangellia Terrane is a geologic concept encompassing a large arc of terrain extending from the south-central part of the U.S. state of Alaska through southwestern Yukon and along the Coast of British Columbia in Canada.".
- Wrangellia_Terrane label "Wrangellia Terrane".
- Wrangellia_Terrane sameAs Q8037565.
- Wrangellia_Terrane sameAs m.03d75j5.
- Wrangellia_Terrane sameAs Q8037565.
- Wrangellia_Terrane sameAs 兰格利亚.
- Wrangellia_Terrane lat "59.984".
- Wrangellia_Terrane long "-140.588".
- Wrangellia_Terrane wasDerivedFrom Wrangellia_Terrane?oldid=704547909.
- Wrangellia_Terrane isPrimaryTopicOf Wrangellia_Terrane.