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accretionary wedge

sediments accreted onto the non-subducting tectonic plate at a convergent plate boundary
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accretionary wedge

Summary

accretionary wedge ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • accretionary wedge's subclass of is recorded as physico-geographical object[2].
  • accretionary wedge's Commons category is recorded as Accretionary wedge[3].
  • accretionary wedge's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03cqj34[4].
  • accretionary wedge's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Accretionary wedge[5].
  • accretionary wedge's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/accretionary-prism[6].
  • accretionary wedge's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1806814[7].
  • accretionary wedge's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 011503[8].
  • accretionary wedge's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 44140439[9].
  • accretionary wedge's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C44140439[10].

Why It Matters

accretionary wedge ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). accretionary wedge. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/accretionary-wedge
MLA “accretionary wedge.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/accretionary-wedge.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_accretionary-wedge_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{accretionary wedge}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/accretionary-wedge}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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