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1. Continental Collision

   Linked via "thrust faults"

   Mechanisms of Crustal Stacking
   When a passive continental margin encounters an active subduction zone, the oceanic lithosphere previously separating the continents is entirely consumed. As the two continental bodies meet, convergence does not cease but is accommodated through complex mechanical responses. The primary mechanism is crustal stacking, where slices of crust are thrust over one another along numerous low-angle faults, known as decollements or [thrust faults]…