A WILSON CYCLE

Axial
Stage A Stage B Rift
Continental Craton

Oceanic
Stage C Stage D Divergent Continental Margin Rift

Stage E Remnant Ocean Basin

Volcanic Arc

Su Barrovian
bd
uct Metamorphism
ion
Zo
ne Subduction
Sut Collision Orogeny Fractionation
ure
Stage F Zo
ne
Foreland Basin

Cordilleran Orogeny

Backarc
Stage G Peneplained Mountain Basin

Barrovian Metamorphism

Continent-Continent Collision Orogeny Backarc Convection Cell

Sut Hinterland
ure
Zo
Stage H Foreland Basin
ne

Stage I Stabilized Continental Craton