Deciphering relationships among the orders of placental mammals remains an important problem in evolutionary biology and has implications for understanding patterns of morphological character evolution, reconstructing the ancestral placental genome, and evaluating the role of plate tectonics and dispersal in the biogeographic history of this group. Until recently, both molecular and morphologic...

Stress inversion of seismological datasets became an essential tool to retrieve the stress field of active tectonics and volcanic areas. In particular, in volcanic areas, it is able to put constrains on volcano-tectonics and in general in a better understanding of the volcano dynamics. During the last decades, a wide range of stress inversion techniques has been proposed, some of them specifica...

Tectonic family member 1 (TCTN1) encodes a member of the tectonic family which are evolutionarily conserved secreted and transmembrane proteins, involving in a diverse variety of developmental processes. It has been demonstrated that tectonics expressed in regions that participate in Hedgehog (Hh) signaling during mouse embryonic development and was imperative for Hh-mediated patterning of the ...

The basement rocks encountered in exploratory boreholes drilled for exploration and evaluation of coal deposits in Thar Parkar district, Sindh Pakistan have formed the basis for present studies. The basement complex was penetrated through eighteen boreholes at drill depth range from 112 to 279 meters. These rocks were identified in field as Pink and Grey Granites.. The basement rocks are of Ign...

Basement membranes were separated from rat glomeruli and purified by mild procedures, which led to a highly enriched basement membrane fraction. Here, the production and characterization of five monoclonal antibodies against tubular and glomerular basement membranes are described. These antibodies were analyzed immunohistochemically on frozen sections of rat, bovine, and human kidneys as well a...

Intraplate ranges are topographic features that can occur far from plate boundaries, the expected position of orogens as described in tectonics theory. To understand lithospheric structure intraplate ranges, we focused on Spanish-Portuguese Central System (SPCS), most outstanding feature central Iberian Peninsula. The SPCS is an Alpine range exhumes Precambrian-Paleozoic rocks and located at >2...

The northern margin of the Organyà basin (Southern Pyrenees) has a complex structure in which syn-rift Lower Cretaceous carbonates flank wide Keuper evaporite province, featuring leading edges basement-involved thrust sheets Pyrenean antiformal stack. Recent studies show that diapirs and salt walls grew during extensional episode, conditioning development differentiated depocenters minibasins. ...

current research in order to identify neo tectonic activity of the ziyarat basin has been made on the northern slopes of the eastern alborz in south-gorgan and using the index of morpho tectonic and tectonic evidence in the area. in this regard, the 6 morphological parameters were calculated and the results are analyzed. the overall results of these features, as indicators of the relative activ...

The Cenozoic Alpine, and Paleozoic Variscan eo-Variscan collisional belts are compared in the framework of Wilson cycle considering differences between cold hot orogens. W. Alps result opening closure Liguro-Piemonte ocean, whereas Eo-variscan orogenies document multiple ocean openings collisions space a polyorogenic history time. Jurassic or Early Ordovician break-up Pangea Pannotia megacontin...