A poorly defined boundary between the Nubia and Eurasian plates runs along Northern Tunisian continental margin. The Tunisia margin is deformed by a slow NW–SE trending convergence resulting in diffuse deformation zone with scarce scattered seismicity compared to seismic activity into neighboring regions east west boundary. area has been studied therefore its recent evolution almost unknown, pa...

Fluid pressures in Miocene-Pleistocene sediments of the US mid-Atlantic continental slope approach the lithostatic stress and are an important control on the stability of the slope. Fluid pressures in excess of hydrostatic were generated by regional depositional patterns and sedimentation rates. Fluid migration within porous and permeable Miocene silty sand layers redistributed pressure and gen...

The Goto Islands are located at the westernmost tip of Japan archipelago, and preserve a lower–middle Miocene sedimentary sequence deposited during rifting continental margin opening Sea Japan. stratigraphy Group new K–Ar, fission-track, U–Pb age data were used to determine initial conditions in southwest thickness is 2000–3000 m. lower unit (ca. 22–17.6 Ma) consists thick, greenish, volcanicla...

Major ice loss in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is hypothesized to have triggered sheet collapses during past warm periods such as those Pliocene. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 recovered continuous late Miocene Holocene sediments from a sediment drift on continental rise, allowing assessment sedimentation processes response climate cycl...

The Himalayan Mountain Belt and adjacent Tibetan Plateau (Figure 1) remain the world’s foremost natural laboratory for investigation of continental collisional tectonics. The continuing debate over how the Asian continent has responded to the embedding of the Indian subcontinent has variously revolved around concepts such as distributed shortening (e.g. Dewey and Burke, 1973), wholesale contine...

The theory of Battisti and Clarke (1982) to calculate analytically barotropic tidal currents across 'smooth' continental margin topography is shown to be valid near shore on 'nonsmooth' continental shelves. The theory includes longshore gradients and friction and produces formulae easily evaluated with coastal sea level data. The tidal currents across three such shelves (West Florida, south of ...