Pennsylvanian to Cretaceous folds and thrusts in south-central Nevada: evidence from the Timpahute Range by Angela Russo Dr. Wanda J. Taylor, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Geoscience University of Nevada, Las Vegas Understanding Permian and Mesozoic contractional structures from southern California to northern Nevada requires correlation through south-central Nevada. After the Devoni...

Elena Logdacheva St.-Petersburg State University 49, 10 Line V.O. St. Petersburg 199178 Russia [email protected] Yuri Vinogradov Institute for the History of Material Culture of RAS 18, Palace emb. St. Petersburg 191186, Russia [email protected] Sergei Shvemberger St.-Petersburg State University 49, 10 Line V.O. St. Petersburg 199178 Russia [email protected] Nikolay Borisov St.-Peter...

The Cimmerian blocks are ribbons-like micro-continents that detached from the northern margin of Gondwana during closure Paleotethys ocean at end Permian. While it has been hypothesized slab pull forces induced by subduction beneath Eurasia could have driven extension in lower plate after mid-oceanic ridge subduction, so far, numerical modeling studies concluded these alone not sufficient to dr...

W. Altermann writes: In their discussion of palaeotectonics and palaeogeography of Malay Peninsula, Harbury et al. propose an alternative interpretation to Sengor’s (1984) model of Triassic or early Jurassic collision of the Cimmerian (Sibumasu) block with the Indochina block in the east. Their interpretation depicts Malay Peninsula as part of Triassic and lower Jurassic Australian Gondwana. ...

The Ordovician radiation of marine life was among the most substantial pulses of diversification in Earth history and coincided in time with a major increase in the global level of orogenic activity. To investigate a possible causal link between these two patterns, the geographic distributions of 6576 individual appearances of Ordovician vician genera around the world were evaluated with respec...

The formation of the Tibetan plateau during the India-Asia collision remains an outstanding issue. Proposed models mostly focus on the different styles of Tibetan crustal deformation, yet these do not readily explain the observed variation of deformation and deep structures along the collisional zone. Here we use three-dimensional numerical models to evaluate the effects of crustal rheology on ...