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Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic beltThe Solonker suture records the termination of the central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). However, tectonic development of the Solonker suture is poorly understood. We report new field data for the Ondor Sum melange in the Ulan valley, and present a new evaluation of the orogenic belt extending from the southern Mongolia cratonic boundary to the north China craton within the context of a new ... ...
Tập 22 Số 6 - 2003
Extension in the Tyrrhenian Sea and shortening in the Apennines as result of arc migration driven by sinking of the lithospherePreviously proposed models for the evolution of the Tyrrhenian basin‐Apenninic arc system do not seem to satisfactorily explain the dynamic relationship between extension in the Tyrrhenian and compression in the Apennines. The most important regional plate kinematic constraints that any model has to satisfy in this case are: (1) the timing of extension in the Tyrrhenian and compression in ... ...
Tập 5 Số 2 - Trang 227-245 - 1986
Extensional collapse of orogensLithospheric extension is sited, preferentially, along orogenic belts because they have a thicker continental crust, contain structural inhomogeneities, and suffer extensional orogenic collapse caused by body forces resulting from isostatically compensated elevation and sharp elevation gradients. Collapse occurs especially where rapid advective thinning of the shortened thermal boundary co... ...
Tập 7 Số 6 - Trang 1123-1139 - 1988
Mediterranean extension and the Africa‐Eurasia collisionA number of tectonic events occurred contemporaneously in the Mediterranean region and the Middle East 30–25 Myr ago. These events are contemporaneous to or immediately followed a strong reduction of the northward absolute motion of Africa. Geological observations in the Neogene extensional basins of the Mediterranean region reveal that extension started synchronously from west to east 30–... ...
Tập 19 Số 6 - Trang 1095-1106 - 2000
Lateral slab deformation and the origin of the western Mediterranean arcsThe western Mediterranean subduction zone (WMSZ) extends from the northern Apennine to southern Spain and turns around forming the narrow and tight Calabrian and Gibraltar Arcs. The evolution of the WMSZ is characterized by a first phase of orogenic wedging followed, from 30 Ma on, by trench retreat and back‐arc extension. Combining new and previous geological data, new tomographic images ... ...
Tập 23 Số 1 - 2004
Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large‐scale drainage patternsA new regional compilation of the drainage history in southeastern Tibet suggests that the modern rivers draining the plateau margin were once tributaries to a single, southward flowing system which drained into the South China Sea. Disruption of the paleo‐drainage occurred by river capture and reversal prior to or coeval with the initiation of Miocene (?) uplift in eastern Tibet, includin... ...
Tập 23 Số 1 - 2004
Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon) and South American Plates since Late Cretaceous timeBy combining reconstructions of the South American and African plates, the African and Antarctic plates, the Antarctic and Pacific plates, and the Pacific and Nazca plates, we calculated the relative positions and history of convergence of the Nazca and South American plates. Despite variations in convergence rates along the Andes, periods of rapid convergence (averaging more than 100 mm/a... ...
Tập 6 Số 3 - Trang 233-248 - 1987
Origin of the Betic‐Rif mountain beltIn recent years, the origin of the Betic‐Rif orocline has been the subject of considerable debate. Much of this debate has focused on mechanisms required to generate rapid late‐orogenic extension with coeval shortening. Here we summarize the principal geological and geophysical observations and propose a model for the Miocene evolution of the Betic‐Rif mountain belts, which is compatible w... ...
Tập 16 Số 3 - Trang 504-522 - 1997
Geodynamics of flat subduction: Seismicity and tomographic constraints from the Andean marginThe cause and geodynamic impact of flat subduction are investigated. First, the 1500 km long Peru flat slab segment is examined. Earthquake hypocenter data image two morphologic highs in the subducting Nazca Plate which correlate with the positions of subducted oceanic plateaus. Travel time tomographic images confirm the three‐dimensional slab geometry and suggest a lithospheric tear may b... ...
Tập 19 Số 5 - Trang 814-833 - 2000
The tectonic expression slab pull at continental convergent boundariesExamination of five thrust belt systems developed at continental subduction boundaries suggests that they comprise two distinct groups that display pronounced and systematic differences in structural style, topographic elevation, denudation, metamorphism, postcollisional convergence, and foredeep basin geometry and facies. The distinctive geological features developed within each thrust be... ...
Tập 12 Số 2 - Trang 303-325 - 1993