Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Suture (geology)

Index Suture (geology)

In structural geology, a suture is a joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories. [1]

35 relations: Anglo-Scottish border, Avalonia, Brittleness, Continent, Continental fragment, Ecdysis, Fault (geology), Geophysics, Great Britain, Iapetus Suture, Igneous rock, Intrusive rock, Kilometre, Laurentia, Lens (geology), Lithology, Metamorphism, Metre, Mylonite, Ophiolite, Orogeny, Outcrop, Palaeogeography, Paleontology, Plain, Plate tectonics, Pluton, Shear zone, Skull, Structural geology, Subduction, Surgery, Tectonics, Terrane, Trilobite.

Anglo-Scottish border

The Anglo-Scottish border between England and Scotland runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Anglo-Scottish border · See more »

Avalonia

Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Avalonia · See more »

Brittleness

# A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it breaks without significant plastic deformation.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Brittleness · See more »

Continent

A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Continent · See more »

Continental fragment

Continental crustal fragments, partially synonymous with microcontinents, are fragments of continents that have been broken off from main continental masses forming distinct islands, often several hundred kilometers from their place of origin.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Continental fragment · See more »

Ecdysis

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Ecdysis · See more »

Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Fault (geology) · See more »

Geophysics

Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Geophysics · See more »

Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Great Britain · See more »

Iapetus Suture

The Iapetus Suture is one of several major geological faults caused by the collision of several ancient land masses forming a suture.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Iapetus Suture · See more »

Igneous rock

Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Igneous rock · See more »

Intrusive rock

Intrusive rock (also called plutonic rock) is formed when magma crystallizes and solidifies underground to form intrusions, for example plutons, batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Intrusive rock · See more »

Kilometre

The kilometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: km; or) or kilometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres (kilo- being the SI prefix for). It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the road network of the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Kilometre · See more »

Laurentia

Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Laurentia · See more »

Lens (geology)

In geology, a lens or lentil is a body of ore or rock that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, resembling a convex lens in cross-section.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Lens (geology) · See more »

Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples or with low magnification microscopy, such as colour, texture, grain size, or composition.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Lithology · See more »

Metamorphism

Metamorphism is the change of minerals or geologic texture (distinct arrangement of minerals) in pre-existing rocks (protoliths), without the protolith melting into liquid magma (a solid-state change).

New!!: Suture (geology) and Metamorphism · See more »

Metre

The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI).

New!!: Suture (geology) and Metre · See more »

Mylonite

Mylonite is a fine-grained, compact metamorphic rock produced by dynamic recrystallization of the constituent minerals resulting in a reduction of the grain size of the rock.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Mylonite · See more »

Ophiolite

An ophiolite is a section of the Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed above sea level and often emplaced onto continental crustal rocks.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Ophiolite · See more »

Orogeny

An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Orogeny · See more »

Outcrop

An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Outcrop · See more »

Palaeogeography

Palaeogeography (or paleogeography) is the study of historical geography, generally physical landscapes.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Palaeogeography · See more »

Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

New!!: Suture (geology) and Paleontology · See more »

Plain

In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Plain · See more »

Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Plate tectonics · See more »

Pluton

In geology, a pluton is a body of intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) that is crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Pluton · See more »

Shear zone

A shear zone is a very important structural discontinuity surface in the Earth's crust and upper mantle.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Shear zone · See more »

Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Skull · See more »

Structural geology

Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Structural geology · See more »

Subduction

Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Subduction · See more »

Surgery

Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Surgery · See more »

Tectonics

Tectonics is the process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Tectonics · See more »

Terrane

A terrane in geology, in full a tectonostratigraphic terrane, is a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Terrane · See more »

Trilobite

Trilobites (meaning "three lobes") are a fossil group of extinct marine arachnomorph arthropods that form the class Trilobita.

New!!: Suture (geology) and Trilobite · See more »

Redirects here:

Suture fault, Suture line, Suture zone.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suture_(geology)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »