The Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary subsidence history of the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) records the effect of two independent basin formation mechanisms at the northern leading margin of the Austroalpine unit. The terrestrial to shallow-marine sediments of the Lower Gosau Subgroup were deposited mainly within small, fault-bound basins during a phase of strike-slip faulting from the late ...

The current configuration of the Alpujarride complex (Befic Orogen) comprises a stack of thinned tectonic units, made up mainly of continental crest. P T path modelling in different levels of an Alpujarride unit (the Salobrefia tectonic unit) reveals a high-pressure metamorphic stage followed by subsequent decompression at nearly isothermal conditions. Nevertheless, the P T conditions differ fr...

The Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment (ALSE) detected two subsurface reflecting horizons in southern Mare Serenitatis. These horizons appear to be regolith layers, >2 m thick, which correlate with major stratigraphic boundaries in southeastern Mare Serenitatis. Our analysis differs from previous interpretations and implies that the lower horizon represents the interface between the earliest mare ...

Introduction: An understanding of the spatial and azimuthal distribution of lobate scarps on Mercury is important in constraining thermal history models and models for the origin of tectonic stresses [see 1]. Existing models involve either global (radial) contraction due to secular cooling of the interior, tidal despinning, or a combination of the two [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. A comprehensive database o...

The metallogenic belts (or regions) of the Sanjiang orogenic domain are divided under ideas systematic, hierarchical and correlated geological-tectonic unit, based on spatial–temporal structure MABT evolution → intracontinental convergence strike-slip tectonic transformation process.

We investigated the kinematics of coupled Helminthoid Flysch–Marguareis Unit outcropping in High Tanaro Valley order to constraint tectonic evolution Western Ligurian Alps. Field mapping highlights a pile composed of, from top bottom: Marguareis (Briançonnais Domain); Flysch (Ligurian Domain) and several continental-derived slices (Chambeuil Slices) showing affinity Briançonnais Domain. Each un...

taposed along the north-trending, high-angle Nahlin fault; all three tectonic elements are intruded by the Late Cretaceous Atlin Mountain pluton (Figure 1-19-2). The oldest rocks in the eastern domain are Mississippian to Triassic oceanic; crustal and sedimentary rocks of the Cache Creek Complex. These include ultramafite, basalt, limestone, chert, argillite and wacke, and probably a mixed ultr...

found on furrow and crater floors. We also find high albedo During its first two encounters with Ganymede, the Galileo units which include crater rims, furrow rims, and isolated knobs and massifs. Other features include an intermediate albedo spacecraft obtained images of a 16,500 km portion of Galileo Regio, a large expanse of dark terrain, at high resolution (76–86 lobate feature interpreted ...

Introduction: The Iberian Pyritic Belt (IPB) consists of a 250-km long geological unit included into the South-Portuguese geotectonical zone of the Iberian Peninsula. It is comprised by an acid volcanosedimentary complex ranging in age from upper Devonian to Carboniferous where different metallic ores were formed in response to hydrotermalism and tectonic related to the Variscan Orogeny [1, 2]....