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What does accretionary mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of an accretion
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The Dzag schists to the north of the ophiolite zone have previously been interpreted as part of an accretionary wedge.
The complexes were stacked during the Devonian in an accretionary wedge to the west or NW of the Rheic oceanic basin.
The Oman Fault separates the Zagros fold and thrust belt from the Makran accretionary wedge in the east.
This assemblage is interpreted as the accretionary prism of an active continental margin.
The disposition of these three neighbouring units probably corresponds to their original relations in the growing accretionary wedge.
Around both zones accretionary wedges are indications of Cretaceous subduction.

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