Meaning Of The Word Accretionary wedge
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Accretionary wedge Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Accretionary wedge?
accretionary wedge in British English
noun: a body of deformed sediments, wedge-shaped in two dimensions or prism-shaped in three dimensions, that has been scraped off the surface of the oceanic lithosphere as it moves downwards beneath a continent or island arc. The sediments are added to the cont |
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