Sentences with phrase «sloped shear zone»
The presence of this widespread, gently sloped shear zone paints a new picture of the final stages of the collision between the two continents.
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Researchers had long thought that proto - North American and Gondwana collided on a shear zone with a much steeper slope, leading some to the view that the two plates slid laterally past each other.