Geological evolution of the Indian and Pacific Ocean basins, including the Tethys Sea, is relevant to the evolution and distribution of Indo-Pacific freshwater fishes. Area cladograms derived from phylogenetic analyses of atherinomorph fishes are compared, in part, with those for plant bugs, cicadas and bats. Geologically and biologically composite islands in the Indo-Australian archipelago suc...

the investigated section cropping out in kuh-e-banesh, zagros basin (southern iran) is represented by limestone, cherty beds and marllevels bearing abundant planktonic foraminifers, radiolarian microfaunas, and ammonite imprints. for the first time, well to moderatelypreserved forms of planktonic foraminifera have been extracted from black shale and marls levels. extracted biota was studied wit...

Tectonic activity in the Mediterranean area (involving migrations of old orogenic belts, formation basins and building systems) has been determined by convergence confining plates (Nubia, Arabia Eurasia). Such mainly accommodated consumption oceanic thinned continental domains, triggered lateral escapes wedges. Here, we argue that implications above basic concepts can allow plausible explanatio...

As an important tectonic unit of Eastern Tethyan domain, Sanjiang orogenic belt started from the expansion, subduction, subtraction and closure Paleozoic Paleo-Tethys Ocean, went through opening Neo-Tethys Ocean subduction collision process Indian continent ended in Himalayan comprehensive intracontinental convergence uplift orogeny, forming a giant composite composed several island arc belts s...

The large marine pachypleurosaur sauropterygian Serpianosaurus germanicus nov. spec., representing the oldest well known record of this genus from the Pelsonian, is introduced based on a postcranial skeleton. Of younger age are the Serpianosaurus mirigolensis (Rieppel, 1989) specimens from the Illyrian/Fassanian boundary (Grenzbitumen Bed) of the northwestern Tethys (Monte San Giorgio). Additio...

Fragmentary post-cranial remains (femora, tibia, vertebrae) of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of the Sultanate of Oman are described and referred to hadrosauroids. The specimens come from the Al-Khod Conglomerate, of latest Campanian to Maastrichtian age, in the north-eastern part of the country. Although the fragmentary condition of the fossils precludes a precise identificat...

Since around 200 Ma, the most notable event in the process of the breakup of Pangea has been the high speed (up to 20 cm yr(-1)) of the northward drift of the Indian subcontinent. Our numerical simulations of 3-D spherical mantle convection approximately reproduced the process of continental drift from the breakup of Pangea at 200 Ma to the present-day continental distribution. These simulation...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Since the 1980s the frequency of warming events has intensified and simultaneously widespread coral bleaching, and enhanced coral mortality have been observed. Yet, it remains unpredictable how tropical coral reef commu...

The geodynamic evolution of the Western Mediterranean for past 35 My is a matter debate. Present-day structure and composition lithosphere sublithospheric mantle may help in constraining region. We use an integrated geophysical-petrological modeling to derive compare present-day thermal, density compositional along two NNW-SSE oriented transects crossing back-arc Alboran Algerian basins, from o...