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continental drift

Geology the theory that the earth's continents move gradually over the surface of the planet on a substratum of magma. The present-day configuration of the continents is thought to be the result of the fragmentation of a single landmass, Pangaea, that existed 200 million years ago
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continental drift

[¦känt·ən¦ent·əl ′drift]
(geology)
The concept of continent formation by the fragmentation and movement of land masses on the surface of the earth. Also known as continental displacement.
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continental drift

In 1980 David Turner remarked that KRC ran "at the speed of the continental drift".
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and Asahara, Y.: 2019, Age, geochemistry, and emplacement of the~ 40-Ma Baneh granite-appinite complex in a transpressional tectonic regime, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran.
These long suture zones are more malleable than the surrounding glacial ice and are less likely to crack when squeezed or pulled.
Suture zones are characterized by regionally extensive belts of greywacke flysch deposited early during the collisional process and subsequently deformed and metamorphosed during continued convergence.
and Picard, C.: 2000, Middle Cretaceous back-arc formation and arc evolution along the Asian margin: the Shyok Suture Zone in northern Ladakh (NW Himalaya), Tectonophysics, 325, No.
The other evidence of it is Nosratabad fault activity that it has occurred after Sistan suture zone formation.
and Marin-Furnica, C.: 1999, The placement of the Trans-European Suture Zone on the Romanian territory by electromagnetic arguments.
A discontinuous belt of ophiolite running through the Muslim Bagh, Bela, Zhob and Waziristan valleys represent the suture zone between the Indian and Eurasian plate.
A suture zone was formed due to this continental collision which is known as Shyoke Suture Zone or Main Karakoram Thrust (MKT; Tahirkheli, 1982).
The Calcareous Zone is thrusted over by the Suture Zone; lying between the Indian plate and Afghan Block (Gansser 1964) and consists of the Muslim Bagh ophiolite (see next section) and the Bagh Complex.