The fossil record provides a powerful basis for analyzing the controlling factors and impact of biological evolution over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and in the context of an evolving Earth. An increasingly interdisciplinary paleontology has begun to formulate the next generation of questions, drawing on a wealth of new data, and on methodological advances ranging from high-reso...

Coupled thermal–orbital histories of early lunar evolution are considered in a simple model. We consider a plagioclase lid, overlying a magma ocean, overlying a solid mantle. Tidal dissipation occurs in the plagioclase lid and heat transport is by conduction and melt migration. We find that large orbital eccentricities can be obtained in this model. We discuss possible consequences of this phas...

Abstract We dated syntectonic calcites on fault planes from the southern branch of western North Anatolian (NAF) in northern Turkey using U-Th geochronology. selected strike-slip faults that are kinematically related to current regional strain field. The isotopic ages cluster around different periods during past ~700 k.y. most prominent peak 510.5 ± 9.5 ka (1σ) is consistent with maximum cumula...