The Nam Pat Group of the Nam Pat Basin, Uttaradit Province, Thailand is situated in the Nan Suture Zone. Two contrasting tectonic framework models of the Nan Suture have previously been proposed: as a main Paleo-Tethyan suture and as a remnant of a closed back-arc basin. The goal of this study is to analyze the tectonic framework of the Nan Suture and reevaluate the existing tectonic models. Th...

The Cenozoic development of the Scotia Sea and opening Drake Passage evolved in a complex tectonic setting with sea-floor spreading accompanied by dispersal continental fragments creation rifted oceanic basins. post-Eocene is relatively well established, but Late Mesozoic palaeo-locations many prior to are largely unknown, almost no geological control on submerged banks. Detrital zircon analysi...

Introduction: The mapping of lineaments from digital remote sensing data is one of the techniques used in the structural and tectonic characterization of a planet. Lineament mapping on Mars is traditionally made using digital imagery [1,2]. MOLA altimetry data was also used to the visual interpretation and extraction of tectonic features from Mars surface [3]. All these works rely on traditiona...

—The transition to the diverse and complex biosphere of the Ediacaran and early Paleozoic is the culmination of a complex history of tectonic, climate, and geochemical development. Although much of this rise occurred in the middle and late intervals of the Neoproterozoic Era (1000–541 million years ago [Ma]), the foundation for many of these developments was laid much earlier, during the latest...

During drilling of Leg 160 in the Eastern Mediterranean (April−May, 1995), Messinian (i.e., uppermost Miocene) facies were identified at a site at the base of the Cyprus slope (Site 968) and at two sites on the Eratosthenes Seamount (Sites 965 and 967). The new results can be compared with the recovery of Messinian evaporites from the Florence Rise west of Cyprus (Deep Sea Drilling Project Site...

Sulawesi has a complex tectonic history that is affected by major plate re-organisations during the Cenozoic resulting in an extension-dominated setting overall of convergence Indo-Australian, Pacific and Philippine Sea, Eurasian plates. It collage disparate terranes brought into juxtaposition variety processes which have occurred at very fast rates. The island subject to geohazards related ear...