We developed a plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic (Ordovician to Cretaceous) integrating dynamic plate boundaries, plate buoyancy, ocean spreading rates and major tectonic and magmatic events. Plates were constructed through time by…
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A foreland basin system is defined as: (a) an elongate region of potential sediment accommodation that forms on continental crust between a contractional orogenic belt and the adjacent craton, mainly in response to geodynamic processes related to…
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Detachment folds represent a major structural element in a number of fold belts. They are common in the Jura Mountains, the Zagros fold belt, the Central Appalachian fold belt, the Wyoming fold-belt, the Brooks Range, the Parry Islands fold belt,…
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Subduction zones are where sediments, oceanic crust, and mantle lithosphere return to and reequilibrate with Earth's mantle. Subduction zones are interior expressions of Earth's 55,000 km of convergent plate margins and are the geodynamic system…
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Thirteen time interval maps were constructed, which depict the Triassic to Neogene plate tectonic configuration, paleogeography and general lithofacies of the southern margin of Eurasia. The aim of this paper is to provide an outline of the…
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Damage zones show very similar geometries across a wide range of scales and fault types, including strike-slip, normal and thrust faults. We use a geometric classification of damage zones into tip-, wall-, and linking-damage zones, based on their…
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The new tectonic map of the Alps is based on the combination of purely structural data with criteria regarding paleo-geographical affiliation and/or tectonometamorphic evolution. The orogenic evolution of the Alps is discussed using a combination of…
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Structural analyses of specific features in naturally deformed rock consist of geometric observations (e.g. shape), kinematic measurements (e.g. strain), and dynamic models (e.g. stress). Although analytical definitions clearly distinguish strain…
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This paper presents three series of analogue models of transpressional deformation in a brittle/ductile system: (1) simple transpression, (2) transpression combined with erosion of uplifted areas of the hanging wall above the deformation front, and…
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Sequence stratigraphy emphasizes facies relationships and stratal architecture within a chronological framework. Despite its wide use, sequence stratigraphy has yet to be included in any stratigraphic code or guide. This lack of standardization…
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Calderas are important features in all volcanic environments and are commonly the sites of geothermal activity and mineralisation. Yet, it is only in the last 25 years that a thorough three-dimensional study of calderas has been carried out,…
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Conventional sequence stratigraphy has been developed primarily for passive-margin basins. Despite the conceptual advances within the last 30 years, a suitable model for rift basins has not yet been devised. Many authors have attempted to adapt the…
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Subduction-accretion complexes can be approximated as wedge-shaped continua with a rigid buttress behind and a subducting litho-spheric slab beneath. Thick wedges undergoing prograde metamorphism have a negligible long-term yield strength and are…
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Sandbox analogue models were used to study the reactivation of a reverse fault in strikeslip and transpressive regimes, for comparison with the evolution of the Giudicarie fault system in the Central Eastern Alps. The Giudicarie system is…
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Analogous to that of a wedge of soil or snow in front of a moving bulldozer. The material within the wedge deforms until a critical taper is attained, after which it slides stably, continuing to grow at constant taper as additional material is…
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Sedimentary basin inversion, the shortening of formerly extensional basins, is accommodated mainly by compressional reactivation of extant faults and fractures across a wide range of scales. As such, inversion is a large-scale manifestation of…
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