In south China the Lushan massif forms a Jurassic through Early Triassic [e.g., Mattauer et al., 1985, topographic high of the South China Block south of the 1991; Okay et al., 1993; Hacker et al., 1996; Gilder et al., Qinling-Dabie belt. The Lushan massif consists of two main 1999]. The noah directed continental subduction of south lithotectonic units separated by a major tectonic ontact: a Ch...

Is erosion important to the structural and petrological evolution of mountain belts? The nature of active metamorphic massifs colocated with deep gorges in the syntaxes at each end of the Himalayan range, together with the magnitude of erosional fluxes that occur in these regions, leads us to concur with suggestions that erosion plays an integral role in collisional dynamics. At multiple scales...

Introduction: Ferroan anorthosite is a dominant rock type in the lunar highland crust. Currently it is thought that the crust was formed by the crystallization and flotation of plagioclase from a global magma ocean [1,2]. This hypothesis of the lunar crust formation was made based on numerous analyses of Apollo and Luna lunar samples of ferroan anorthosites. Nevertheless these samples are now k...

Spacecraft are key components of military operations and everyday life. To achieve space situation awareness, human operators must monitor large numbers of parameters. During off-nominal conditions (e.g. severe space weather storm or onboard anomaly), it is difficult to cohesively monitor the data to develop an accurate tactical picture. To aid operators, we have developed a prototype Multi-Age...

Drilling into a rock massif is energetically extremely consumptive process. Hence the optimization of drilling regime with objective of energy consumption minimization, is very important. Proposed article discusses partial problem of this problem. During the drilling process it is useful to know the drilled rock type, whereas to particular drilled rock needs convenient drilling regime, which is...

melt fractions that percolated pervasively throughout the massif and On the basis of their structural and compositional characteristics, had a refractory, calc-alkaline character. Locally, these melts were mafic rocks in the Ronda peridotite are classified into four groups: tapped into cracks forming intrusive dykes. group A (garnet-bearing rocks) occurring in the spinel tectonite domain; group...

The new genus and species Isalonactis madagascariensis is characterized by a crustose, noncorticate, often sorediate thallus containing psoromic acid, tiny white pruinose ascomata with a thalline margin, an inconspicuous excipulum, a pale brown hypothecium, 3-septate hyaline ascospores and curved filiform conidia. Phylogenetic analyses using nuLSU and RPB2 sequences place Isalonactis in the Roc...

When fossil diatoms are preserved in mires, they can be excellent indicators of ecological conditions and very useful in palaeoenviromental reconstruction, both alone and in combination with other siliceous fossils. Processing techniques for diatom frustules have varied and been modified according to the sediment from which the diatoms are being extracted. They differ from those used for palyno...

We describe a new species of the Boophis albilabris group (Anura: Mantellidae) from north-western Madagascar. Boophis tsilomaro sp. nov. is most similar to B. occidentalis from the Isalo Massif, but differs by substantial genetic differentiation, larger size, absence of a turquoise iris colour, presence of a more distinct white stripe along upper lip in life, and longer note duration and lower ...