[1] The contemporary presence of the Puli Topographic Embayment within the Taiwanese thrust belt provides insight into processes that initiate and maintain a subcritical state in a thin‐skinned compressive wedge. Orogen‐scale analyses of Taiwan have succeeded in describing the processes and interactions that affect overall development of the thrust belt; however, relatively little is known abou...

[1] The development of topography within and erosional removal of material from an orogen exerts a primary control on its structure. We develop a model that describes the temporal development of a frontally accreting, critically growing Coulomb wedge whose topography is largely limited by bedrock fluvial incision. We present general results for arbitrary initial critical wedge geometries and in...

Models of how high elevations formed across Tibet predict: (a) the continuous thickening of a "viscous sheet"; (b) time-dependent, oblique stepwise growth; and (c) synchronous deformation across Tibet that accompanied collision. Our new observations may shed light on this issue. Here, we use 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology from massifs in the hanging walls of thrust structures along th...

Recently published model of the global redox carbon cycle [1] asserts that cycle is a recurring sequence of related processes on the Earth. The sequence is called the orogenic cycle and consists of short-term orogenic and long-term geosynclynal periods. The orogenic period of the cycle is characterized with intense volcanism, magmatism and mountain building. The geosynclynal period is character...

The Tyrrhenian back-arc basin developed at the rear of E-ward migrating Apennine fold-and-thrust belt, with northward decreasing rollback subducting Adria slab leading to fading extension. northern portion is made thinned continental crust, whereas in central/southern extension eventually evolved oceanic crust production. In this framework, a long-lasting debate concerns existence >200 km long ...

• Detrital zircon analysis of Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano Belt supracrustal rocks. Minimum age constraint for sedimentation into Brusque Complex rift basin at ca. 810 Ma. Mesoproterozoic fractions reveal major African sedimentary protosources. detrital record correlates with Kaoko and Porongos Complex. Data show close proximity between the Luis Alves Congo cratons Rodinia breakup. metasediment...

Abstract Here, we present in situ U–Pb laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) ages of andradite-grossular garnet from four magmatic-hydrothermal polymetallic skarn prospects the Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge (Germany), located internal zone Variscan Orogenic Belt. Within geochronological framework igneous rocks and hydrothermal mineralization Erzgebirge, ob...