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GEOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 15-18Publisher
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G38453.1
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- National Science Foundation EarthScope Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [EAR-0844276, EAR-0844186, EAR-0844154, 111-S]
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In contrast to crustal deformation observed in the actively forming Himalayas, where shallowly dipping crustal detachments extend over hundreds of kilometers, prior work on the Paleozoic southern Appalachian orogeny inferred that the final continental collision occurred on a steeply dipping crustal suture, permitting collision models that are dominated by strike-slip motion. Here, we use scattered seismic phases to instead reveal the Appalachian (Alle-ghanian) crustal suture as a low-angle (
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