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Plate tectonic theory implies that mantle plumes may be eventually overridden by lithosphere during continental drift. These events have particular tectonomagmatic consequences for active margins and hence related orogenic processes. Since the first documentation of plume overriding and the definition of the plume-modified orogeny concept, only few examples have been recognized in the geologic record...