Accretionary wedge
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title:
Accretionary wedge
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An accretionary wedge or accretionary prism forms from sediments accreted onto the non-subducting tectonic plate at a convergent plate boundary. Most of the material in the accretionary wedge consists of marine sediments scraped off from the downgoing slab of oceanic crust, but in some cases the wedge includes the erosional products of volcanic island arcs formed on the overriding plate. An accretionary complex is a current or former accretionary wedge. Accretionary complexes are typically made
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The sediments accreted onto the non-subducting tectonic plate at a convergent plate boundary
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2023-11-20T13:13:45Z
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