A review of the western part of the Altaids: A key to understanding the architecture of accretionary orogens

The Altaids is one of the largest accretionary collages in the world, and the tectonic styles of the accretionary processes have been interpreted in several ways, including as an amalgamation of multiple terranes, as a result of oroclinal bending of a long, single arc, or as a Caledonian continental collision. Based on recent tectonostratigraphic analyses together with paleomagnetic data, the tectonic styles of the Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic...