Annamia block

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Paleozoic history of Asia

  • A map of the continent of Asia, including its countries, boundaries, and capital cities, as well as parts of Europe, Africa, and surrounding oceans.
    In Asia: Paleozoic events in the Tethysides

    …to what is called the Annamia block. The earlier island arc docked along a suture that now coincides with the Annamese Cordillera in northern Vietnam in the Devonian or slightly earlier. The later one collided along a suture zone farther to the north, along the present-day Ma River, during the…

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