Table of contents : Cover......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Accretionary orogens through Earth history......Page 10 Metamorphic patterns in orogenic systems and the geological record......Page 46 Arc-continent collisions, sediment recycling and the maintenance of the continental crust......Page 84 Implications of estimated magmatic additions and recycling losses at the subduction zones of accretionary (non-collisional) and collisional (suturing) orogens......Page 113 Eoarchaean crustal growth in West Greenland (Itsaq Gneiss Complex) and in northeastern China (Anshan area): review and synthesis......Page 134 Archaean crustal growth processes in southern West Greenland and the southern Superior Province: geodynamic and magmatic constraints......Page 162 Correlation of Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic units between northeastern Canada and western Greenland: constraining the pre-collisional upper plate accretionary history of the Trans-Hudson orogen......Page 199 Palaeoproterozoic accretionary processes in Fennoscandia......Page 242 The underestimated Proterozoic component of the Canadian Cordillera accretionary margin......Page 262 A Palaeozoic Northwest Passage: incursion of Caledonian, Baltican and Siberian terranes into eastern Panthalassa, and the early evolution of the North American Cordillera......Page 277 Arc imbrication during thick-skinned collision within the northern Cordilleran accretionary orogen, Yukon, Canada......Page 312 Palaeozoic Lachlan orogen, Australia; accretion and construction of continental crust in a marginal ocean setting: isotopic evidence from Cambrian metavolcanic rocks......Page 331 The Eurasian SE Asian margin as a modern example of an accretionary orogen......Page 352 Evolution from an oblique subduction back-arc mobile belt to a highly oblique collisional margin: the Cenozoic tectonic development of Thailand and eastern Myanmar......Page 374 Index......Page 405