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Although some skeletal remains are evidently allochthonous, other remains are probably parautochthonous.
However, this does not prove that the Moine rocks necessarily constitute an allochthonous terrane in the North American sense.
These rocks are also of biogeographic interest because unlike truly allochthonous terranes they are parautochthonous with respect to the craton.
Synorogenic flysch deposits were laid down in front of the advancing allochthonous complexes, and were overridden by them.
This has led to debate on whether this basement complex is allochthonous or autochthonous.
These sea ice communities can be supported by materials that are allochthonous and autochthonous.
The Menderes Massif is part of the Menderes-Tauride Block, a post-Permian microcontinent, which is allochthonous with respect to both Eurasia and Gondwana.
An additional factor that concerns the survival of languages is the attainment of literacy in the autochthonous and allochthonous groups.
What clues from the rock record or the fossils themselves might tell you whether a fossil assemblage was autochthonous, transported only a little bit, or truly allochthonous?
The villages selected consist of localities within populations of between 100 and 3000 local, allochthonous and non-indigenous people.
Plants are also involved in nutrient uptake and provide allochthonous organic material for detritivores.
The positive aspects listed above only apply if the anhydrite is relatively pure and if the formation does not contain any extensive inclusions of allochthonous rock.
Within the supercontinent interior large sedimentary basins developed at this time, whereas post-Permian turbidite deposits on the oceanic fringe represent large volumes of accreted material, possibly allochthonous.
The resulting oxygen deficit is principally caused by allochthonous bacteria larger than one micrometre in size.
It is a composite slump with proximal and distal allochthonous sediment masses separated by a large glide plane scar.
Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.
The North American Cordillera is an accretionary orogen which grew by the progressive addition of allochthonous terranes along this margin from the Late Palaeozoic.
Allochthonous sediments enter the cave system through a number of processes, including aeolian, fluvial, colluvial, biogenic, glacial, marine, and human activity.
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