Collision zone
A collision zone occurs when tectonic plates meeting at a convergent boundary both bearing continental lithosphere. As continental lithosphere is usually not subducted due to its relative low density, the result is a complex area of orogeny involving folding and thrust faulting as the blocks of continental crust pile up above the subduction zone.
Examples
Notable examples include:
- Philippine Mobile Belt
- Molucca Sea Collision Zone
- Izu Collision Zone
- Ishikari Collision Zone
- Mount Fuji Collision Zone
- Carlin Unconformity
- Daisetsuzan Collision Zone
- Luzon-Taiwan Collision Zone
- Indus-Yarlung suture zone
- Eastern Anatolian collision zone[1]
- Banda Arc–Australian collision zone[2]
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See also
References
- R Gök, R., et al. Lithospheric structure of the continent–continent collision zone: eastern Turkey, Geophysical Journal International, 2007, Volume 169, Issue 3, Pages 789–1378
- Karig, Daniel E., et al., Nature and distribution of deformation across the Banda Arc–Australian collision zone at Timor, GSA Bulletin; January 1987; v. 98; no. 1; pp. 18–32
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