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Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia

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A new tectonic model, postulating the growth of giant subduction-accretion complexes along a single magmatic arc now found contorted between Siberia and Baltica, shows that Asia grew by 5.3 million square kilometres during the Palaeozoic era. Half of this growth may have occurred by the addition of juvenile crust newly extracted from the mantle, supporting models of considerable continental growth continuing throughout the Phanerozoic eon.

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Şengör, A., Natal'in, B. & Burtman, V. Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia. Nature 364, 299–307 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/364299a0

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