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This feature is called the accretionary wedge, mélange, or accretionary prism.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Sediments and oceanic crust scraped off the descending plate piled up in an accretionary wedge, which created a forearc basin that trapped sediments eroded from Tibet.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2015

I know we’re in for volcanoes and earthquakes and some really wild metamorphism, accretionary wedges and the whole shebang. 

From Scientific American • Mar. 20, 2014

The up-dip limit of the forearc is an active accretionary prism that extends about 50 km landward of the trench.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 16, 2011

But Newbery also made another discovery which still further establishes the probability of the accretionary growth of gold in drifts.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by Johnson, J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances)