To investigate the architecture of transpressional deformation and its long-term relationship to plate motion in southern California, we have studied the deformation pattern and structural geometry of orogeny within the San Andreas fault system. The San Bernardino Mountains have formed recently at the hub of several active structures that intersect the San Andreas fault east of Los Angeles. Thi...

The early Miocene Murree Formation, late Miocene Nagri Formation and recent alluvium rock units are exposed in the sub-Himalayas of the Bagh area, State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. The Bagh area was badly affected by the Kashmir earthquake of October 8th 2005 which, along the Muzaffarabad Fault, deformed both the hanging and footwall blocks. The cracks, joints, fissures and fractures i...

The Lapland–Kola Orogen (LKO; former Kola craton) in the northern Fennoscandian Shield comprises a collage of partially reworked late Archaean terranes with intervening belts of Palaeoproterozoic juvenile crust including the classic Lapland Granulite Terrane. Rifting of Archaean crust began at c 2.5–2.4 Ga as attested by layered mafic and anorthositic intrusions developed throughout the norther...

Magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary rock deposited in the Chaka basin (north-easternTibetan Plateau) indicates a lateMiocene onset of basin formation and subsequent development of the adjacent Qinghai Nan Shan. Sedimentation in the basin initiated at 11Ma. In the lower part of the basin ¢ll, a coarsening-upward sequence starting at 9Ma, as well as rapid sedimentation rates, and northward paleocu...

Abundant and clearly exposed relationships between structures and syntectonic sedimentary rocks in the southern Pyrenees make this area particularly suitable for detailed studies of the sequential development of a collisional orogenic belt. During the Pyrenean orogeny, major shortening occurred in the eastern Pyrenees in Eocene and early Oligocene times. Unto now, individual tectonic and deposi...

Abstract Normal faults are commonly segmented along strike, with segments that localize strain and influence propagation of slip during earthquakes. Although the geometry can be constrained by fault mapping, it is challenging to determine seismically relevant a zone. Because histories, geometries, strengths linkages between normal fundamentally control rupture earthquakes, differences in segmen...

Kinematic constraints on the Cenozoic deformation along northwestern edge of Tibetan Plateau remain limited. Combining surface geological data and seismic profiles, we document structural geometry kinematics large-scale east-west striking Hotan anticline, foothills Western Kunlun Range. Four new balanced cross-sections are constructed, temporal evolution is deciphered from exceptionally well-im...

Due to challenges involved in mapping the seafloor at high-resolution (e.g., <2 m), data are lacking understand processes that control evolution of submarine normal fault scarps, which cover large parts global seafloor. Here, we use from autonomous deep-sea vehicles quantify local erosion and deposition associated with a pronounced tectonic surface scarp formed by slip on Roseau (Lesser Antille...

In recent decades, constraining the timing of shear activity has been one main topics research about tectono-metamorphic evolution orogenic belts. We present a review combined structural and geochronological approach to two major ductile regional zones, in collisional orogens: first affecting Variscan basement northern Sardinia (Italy) External Crystalline Massifs Alps (East Shear Zone; EVSZ), ...

The Mjølnir impact crater in the Norwegian Barents Sea features among 20 largest craters listed Earth Impact Database. is dated to 142 ± 2.6 Ma, corresponding closely Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary Boreal stratigraphy. Multidisciplinary studies carried out over last three decades have suggested that up 40 km wide was created by a 1–3 diameter impactor colliding with shallow epicontinental sea, ca...