The Davisian model elucidates landscape development through an orogeny by denudation processes, postulating prolonged still-stand of a landmass following rapid tectonic uplift, ultimately resulting in a peneplain. The Penckian model emphasizes that landscape is shaped by concurrent tectonics and denudation, and includes the primary peneplain as an antithesis against the Davisian end-peneplain b...

The study of the Gulf of Cadiz on the basis of multichannel seismic profiles and wells illustrates the stratigraphy and tectonics. The evolution of the southern Iberian margins was more complex than in most North Atlantic margins since it entailed several phases of rifting, convergence and strike-slip motions. Three main tectonic provinces surround the internal zones of the Gibraltar Arc orogen...

A comparative petrological study was conducted on the columnar joints of Guryongpo, Pohang, Yangnam, Gyeongju, and Gangdong-hwaam, Ulsan in Cenozoic Miocene sedimentary basin. Horizontal joints, these are characteristically developed, cross-sectional shape each joint is predominantly quadrilateral pentagonal Guryongpo Yangnam to hexagonal Gangdong-hwaam joint. As a result XRF analysis, it confi...

We have dated the South Delhi orogeny, Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India, using tectonic fabric, geochemistry, and zircon-monazite geochronology as proxies. The Terrane (SDT), a passive margin domain in ADMB, consists of multiply deformed (D 1 –D 4 ) greenschist facies rocks several granite plutons. D deformation is characterized by pervasive isoclinal recumbent F fold axial planar te...

In the Southern São Francisco Craton near Itapecerica (Minas Gerais – Brazil) occurs a supracrustal succession of rocks, varying from bottom to top by quartzite, graphite schist, khondalitic paragneiss and banded iron formation whose protoliths are oceanic basin with ages in context Rhyacian-Orosirian orogeny. Amphibolite metaultramafic bodies occur associated this succession. Mineralogical tex...