Introduction: Numerous studies over the past decade have demonstrated that microbial life rapidly colonizes terrestrial subaqueous volcanic glass [1-5]. Evidence for microbial alteration of terrestrial subaqueous volcanic rocks has been reported from modern ocean crust, ophiolites, and Archean greenstone belts [1-5]. Microbial alteration structures with characteristic granular and tubular morph...

The main objective of the remotely sensed data fusion is to create an integrated composite image of improved information and enhanced interpretability. This data have geospatial details about earth’s surface for substantial assessment of land resources and mineral exploration. Fusion of Visible-Infrared (VIR) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images provides complementary data to increase the ...

[1] The Eocene India-Eurasia collision is a first order tectonic event whose nature and chronology remains controversial. We test two end-member collision scenarios using coupled global plate motion-subduction models. The first, conventional model, invokes a continental collision soon after 60 Ma between a maximum extent Greater India and an Andean-style Eurasian margin. The alternative scenari...

A microtectonic study was conducted in the Levac region of central Serbia. Here, tectonic contacts between Europe?derived units, including Serbo-Macedonian unit and Jurassic sedimentary cover European margin, Eastern Vardar Ophiolitic unit, are exposed at surface. The results indicate that contact zone underwent least two ductile contractional deformation phases. older contraction associated wi...

The western segment of the suture zone between Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks, which is most important tectonic boundary related to formation rifting south China, enigmatic not fully understood due sporadic exposure Precambrian strata ophiolites. Three-dimensional electrical resistivity models derived from inversion magnetotelluric data identified a lithospheric-scale conductive extending northea...