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Categories: Plate tectonics, Tectonics stubs
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thin-skinned deformation
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Thin-skinned deformation is a style of deformation in plate tectonics at a convergent boundary which occurs with shallow thrust faults that only involves cover rocks, and not deeper basement rocks. Wikipedia
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Thin-skinned deformation is a style of deformation in plate tectonics at a convergent boundary which occurs with shallow thrust faults that only involves cover rocks, and not deeper basement rocks. Wikipedia
style of deformation in plate tectonics at a convergent boundary which occurs with shallow thrust faults that only involves cover rocks (typically sedimentary rocks), and not deeper basement rocks Wikidata
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thick-skinned deformation
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thin-skinned deformation
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thin-skinned deformation

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