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The 23 pages that link to Wilson cycle, each with the reason it gives.

• Plate tectonicsRelated: The grand pattern of plate motion: oceans are born, widen, shrink and close.

• SubductionRelated: Subduction closes oceans opened at ridges, driving the cycle from one supercontinent to the next.

• PangaeaNarrower topic: Pangaea is the most recent full turn of this repeating cycle.

• Continental collisionNarrower topic: Continental collision is the terminal stage of an ocean basin's closing cycle.

• Tethys OceanNarrower topic: Tethys exemplifies an ocean basin opened and later consumed by moving plates.

• RodiniaRelated: Its stages help explain ocean opening during Rodinia’s breakup.

• Tectonic plateRelated: Plate motions assemble and break apart supercontinents across geological time.

• Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chainRelated: The chain provided evidence that oceanic plates move across long-lived volcanic sources.

• Divergent boundaryNarrower topic: It places divergent boundaries within the longer cycle of ocean-basin evolution.

• Iapetus OceanNarrower topic: The Iapetus Ocean records a complete ocean-basin cycle, from rifting to continental collision.

• Supercontinent cycleRelated: The ocean-basin lifecycle that composes the larger rhythm of supercontinent assembly and dispersal.

• Farallon PlateRelated: The Farallon story records the destruction of oceanic lithosphere during an ocean basin's closure.

• Oceanic lithosphereNarrower topic: Oceanic lithosphere is created and destroyed during each basin's cycle.

• Earth's crustRelated: It describes how continental crust and ocean basins are reorganized over geological time.

• J. Tuzo WilsonBroader topic: Wilson’s name became attached to this account of ocean-basin evolution.

• PannotiaRelated: Pannotia’s proposed history is one episode of ocean opening and closure in this cycle.

• Continental riftNarrower topic: Continental rifting marks the opening stage of this cycle.

• PanthalassaNarrower topic: Panthalassa exemplifies an ocean basin transformed during the assembly and breakup of a supercontinent.

• SupercontinentRelated: Its repeated ocean opening and closure describes the assembly and breakup cycle.

• Continental fragmentRelated: Fragments record stages of ocean opening and later closure in this cycle.

• Seafloor spreading hypothesisRelated: Generalized spreading and subduction into a repeating lifecycle of ocean basins.

• Oceanic basinRelated: It describes the basin-scale sequence from continental rifting to ocean closure.

• PaleocontinentRelated: It links fragment separation to later incorporation into new landmasses.