Discuss the role that accretion of terranes played in the development of North America. What will be an ideal response?
A number of terranes were accreted to the western part of North America in the Mesozoic.
These included the Wrangellian terranes and the Klamath Mountains. These terranes added to
the North American continental mass and extended the continent to the west. Accretion of
several of the terranes was responsible for orogenic activity during the Mesozoic Period,
including the Sonoma orogeny.
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