TY - JOUR AU - Dewey, J. F. AU - Mange, M. A. AU - Ryan, P. D. PY - 2011/09/06 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Arc-continent collision: orogeny and continental growth JF - Trabajos de GeologĂ­a JA - Trab. geol. VL - 29 IS - 29 SE - International Meeting of Young Researchers in Structural Geology and Tectonics (Part 1) DO - UR - https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/TDG/article/view/254 SP - AB - The mid-Ordovician Grampian Orogen of western Irish Caledonides, the Miocene Bismarck Orogen of New Guinea, and the early Cretaceous Nevadan Orogen of the Sierra Nevada probably developed bythe collision of a supra-subduction zone (SSZ) ophiolite/oceanic arc(s) with a continental margin followedby a flip in subduction polarity, leading to theaddition of oceanic arc complexes to the edges ofcontinents and, hence, continental growth ER -