Stikinia

Stikinia

Stikinia is the name of a geologic feature in the Canadian Cordillera of British Columbia, Canada. It formed as a result of subduction during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods. [ [http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/109/11/1402 Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks of Stikina exposed in sorthwestern British Columbia; implications for correlations in the northern Cordillera] ]

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