Category
page 1Suture zones
suture
joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories
Periadriatic Seam
border between the Adriatic and European plates
Trans-European Suture Zone
Tornquist Margin, Sorgenfrei–Tornquist (North) and Teisseyre–Tornquist (South), separates the Baltic Shield and Eastern European Platform from the North-West European Craton.
Magallanes-Fagnano Fault
continental transform fault between the Scotia Plate and the South American Plate
Pieniny Klippen Belt
zone in the Western Carpathians, with a very complex geological structure