We present the first evidence for sedimentation and new penetrative deformation metamorphism in central Colorado Front Range associated with ∼ 1.48–1.35 Ga Picuris orogeny. This orogeny has recently been recognized New Mexico, Arizona southern may be part of a larger active accretionary margin that includes 1.51–1.46 Pinware Baraboo events, eastern Canada US respectively, preceded amalgamation ...

Teleseismic tomography across the Chinese Tien Shan shows that seismic wave speeds in the lithosphere beneath central Tien Shan are high and therefore the lithosphere is not weaker than that beneath the adjacent undeformed Tarim and Junggar basins. There is evidence for significant velocity contrasts within the lithosphere that are presumably inherited from the Palaeozoic collision history. The...

The geometric and kinematic evolution of the Andes provides insight onto the nature of the force balance beneath the South American plate. While the Andean load is opposed on its western edge by the force induced by subduction of the Nazca plate, its more elusive eastern counterpart, which we explore herein, requires some contribution from the mantle beneath the South Atlantic. Using a mantle f...

Plants have a long history and diverse species. They play critical role in the ecological chain, human production life. With vast territory, China has rich plant species complex geographical regions, research on distribution of diversity is significant for utilising, developing, protecting biological resources. This study aimed to China. It obtained data China, then analysed it via spectral clu...

Literature reports upper Cretaceous to Middle Eocene flysch/wildflysch deposits from Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Granada, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Early papers recording their widespread distribution and noting their tectonic implications are often overlooked by popular palaeogeographic and plate tectonic reconstructions of the Caribbean area...

. Early to middle Paleozoic arbonates ofeastern North America have been pervasively remagnetized. In order to determine the process of remagnetization, scanning and scanning transmission electron microscopy have been used to characterize magnetite in thin sections and in concentrated separates. Samples included Ordovician Knox carbonates from east Tennessee, Ordovician Trenton limestone and Dev...

Décollement zones within the organic-rich black shale members of the basal Marcellus Formation in New York and Pennsylvania have been recognized for some time (Nickelsen, 1986; Evans, 1994, among others). Outcrop study of the upper Onondaga Formation-Marcellus Formation contact at three localities in the central New York outcrop belt (Figure 1) demonstrates that thrust fault structures are pres...

Ion microprobe age determinations of 102 detrital zircon crystals from a sand extrudite, Cretaceous Paraná volcanic province, set limits on the origin of the numerous sand layers present in this major flood basalt province. The zircon U-Pb ages reflect four main orogenic cycles: Mesoproterozoic (1155-962 Ma), latest Proterozoic-early Cambrian (808-500 Ma) and two Palaeozoic (Ordovician- 480 to ...

Afghanistan sits on the junction between the Indo-Australasian and Eurasian crustal plates and is composed of a series of terranes (Figure 1) that broke away from the main Gondwana supercontinent before colliding with and being accreted on to the Eurasian plate. The accretionary events began in the Cretaceous and have continued until recent times. The Herat or Hari Rod fault, which runs E-W acr...

The stratigraphies of foreland basins have been related to orogeny, where continent-continent collision causes the construction of topography and the downwarping of the foreland plate. These mechanisms have been inferred for the Molasse basin, stretching along the northern margin of the European Alps. Continuous flexural bending of the subducting European lithosphere as a consequence of topogra...