The Wilson cycle is the succession of stages through which an ocean basin opens and closes again between continental margins: continental rifting, break-up and sea-floor spreading, a widening ocean with passive margins, the start of subduction, the narrowing and closure of the ocean, continental collision, and the collapse and erosion of the belt, after which the welded continent may rift again along the same zone.
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