from their origin and fetch up, crumpled, against an exotic shore. Such terranes were dubbed "accreted terranes" by geologists. When terranes are composed of repeated accretionary events, and hence are composed of subunits with distinct history and structure, they may be called superterranes. Tectonostratigraphic terranes Africa Birminian Terrane Kahiltna Terrane Likasi Terrane Mozambique Belt Asia Aldan Terrane Birekte Terrane Bargusin Terrane Daldyn Terrane Magan Terrane Markha Terrane Midyan Terrane Shan–Thai Terrane Tungus Terrane Tynda Terrane Uchur Terrane Taiwan Coastal Range Terrane Longitudinal Valley Terrane Eastern Central Range Terrane Western Central Range Terrane Hsuehshan Range Terrane Western Foothills Terrane Coastal Plain Terrane Tibet Lhasa Terrane Qiangtang Terrane Xigaze Terrane Bainang Terrane Zedong Terrane Dazhuqu Terrane Australasia Brook Street Terrane Buller Terrane Caples Terrane East Tasmanian Terrane Glenburgh Terrane Dun Mountain-Maitai Terrane Molong—Monaro Terrane Murihiku Terrane Narryer Gneiss Terrane Takaka Terrane Torlesse Composite Terrane Waipapa Composite Terrane West Tasmanian Terrane Europe Armorican terrane Avalonia Avalon Composite Terrane Balearic Terrane Briançonnais Terrane Central Highlands Terrane Central Southern Uplands Terrane Charnwood Terrane Hebridean Terrane Leinster—Lakesman Terrane Midland Valley Terrane North Armorican Composite Terrane Northern Highlands Terrane Rosslare—Monian Terranes Southern North Sea Terrane Tregor—La Hague Terrane Wrekin Terrane Fennoscandia Bamble Terrane Idefjorden Terrane Kongsberg Terrane Telemarkia Terrane Western Gneiss Region North America Avalonia Terrane Bancroft Terrane Buffalo Head Terrane Cache Creek Terrane Carolina Terrane Cassiar Terrane Crescent Terrane Elzevir Terrane Frontenac Terrane Franciscan Complex Ganderia Terrane Hottah Terrane Insular Superterrane Intermontane Plate and Intermontane Belt Meguma Terrane Occidentalia Terrane Pacific Rim Terrane Pearya Terrane Quesnellia Salinian Block Slide Mountain Terrane Smartville Block Sonomia Terrane Steel Mountain Terrane Stikinia Wrangellia Terrane Yakutat Block Yukon—Tanana Terrane South America Arequipa-Antofalla Chaitenia Chilenia Chiloé Block Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane Cuyania Fitz Roy Terrane Madre de Dios Terrane Mejillonía Nico Pérez Terrane Pampia Paranapanema block Piedra Alta Terrane Tandilia Terrane References Citations General bibliography McPhee, John (1981). Basin and Range. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. McPhee, John (1983). In Suspect Terrain. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. McPhee, John (1993). Assembling California. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. External links West Antarctica terrane analysis Examples of accreted terrane in Idaho Alaskan Terranes