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Lake Processes and Sedimentation
The Kenya Rift lakes occupy grabens, sag basins, and depressions dammed by faulting and volcanic rocks. Modern lakes range from shallow (<1 m,...
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On Volcanism and Tectonics in the Evolution of the Guyots of the Magellan Seamounts (Pacific Ocean)
AbstractThis report analyzes original geological materials on the Magellan Seamounts in the Pacific Ocean, obtained by the authors on numerous...
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Polyphase extensional basins: interplay between tectonics and sedimentation in the Neogene Siena-Radicofani Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy)
Rift-basins are the shallow effects of lithosphere-scale extensional processes often producing polyphase faulting. Their sedimentary evolution...
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Plate Tectonics: The Stabilizer of Earth’s Habitability
Earth is the only planet known to be habitable, and is also unique with its liquid water, and the operation of plate tectonics. The geological record...
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Identification and characterisation of seismites in the continental Jurassic red beds: implications for synsedimentary tectonics in the central High Atlas (Morocco)
The Bathonian-? Late Jurassic red beds outcrop in several synclines in the Moroccan central High Atlas (Imilchil area). They consist in a thick...
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The Eastern Tell of North Africa: structural styles, wedge geometry and tectonics
The structure of the Tell Fold-and-Thrust Belt (FATB) and its South Front (STF) is deeply influenced by (1) Triassic evaporites abundance underneath...
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Controls on Lacustrine Sedimentation in Rift Settings
Rift lakes reveal the complex interaction of tectonic, volcanic and climatic controls on their environment and sedimentation. Lake sedimentation...
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Geomorphic anomalies in Uttarakhand, India: A GIS-based approach for active tectonics
Natural destructive forces produced by active tectonics have the potential to alter the geomorphology of any terrain. In this work, Uttarakhand was...
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Implications of Salt Tectonics on Hydrocarbon Ascent in the Eastern Persian Gulf: Insights into the Formation Mechanism of Salt Diapirs, Gas Chimneys, and Their Sedimentary Interactions
Gas chimneys, salt domes, and faults are vital to the movement of hydrocarbons within geological systems. Accurate identification of these geological...
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Plate tectonics in the twenty-first century
Plate tectonics was originally established as a kinematic theory of global tectonics, in which the Earth’s rigid outer layer, the lithosphere,...
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Energy partitioning in global marine sedimentation: tidal, geothermal, and solar radiation contributions
Earth surface sedimentary processes involve the conversion of energy from tidal friction, geothermal heat release, and solar radiation. However, the...
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Active Tectonics of North-Eastern Taymyr (Byrranga Mountains) and Questions of Seismo-Tectonic Regionalization of the Russian Arctic
AbstractIn this paper, we present the first results of complex geological and geophysical studies of active tectonics in the northeast of Taymyr that...
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Sedimentation History of the Aldan–Maya Sedimentary Basin (Southeast of the North Asian Craton) Reconstructed from a Seismostratigraphic Section
AbstractThe sedimentation history of the Aldan–Maya sedimentary basin was reconstructed based on a seismostratigraphic section. In total, ten...
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Glacial Sedimentation
Moraines are landforms of glacial deposition. They are formed in different locations and by different, active and passive processes. For this reason,...
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Atlantic-Type Passive Margin Structural Style of the Cretaceous Basin in Northern Tunisia: Paleoslope Reconstruction and Regional Tectonics
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to characterize the configuration of northern Tunisia’s basin during the Cretaceous on the basis of abundant...
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Orogenic exhumation, erosion, and sedimentation in a pro-foreland basin: central Pindos foreland basin, western Greece
In western Greece is the Pindos Foreland Basin, a geological depression that contains approximately 2500 m of mainly Upper Eocene to Lower Oligocene...
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Antarctic geothermal heat flow and its implications for tectonics and ice sheets
Geothermal heat flow (GHF) is an elusive physical property, yet it can reveal past and present plate tectonic processes. In Antarctica, GHF has...
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Post-subduction tectonics induced by extension from a lithospheric drip
Subduction termination leads to complex tectonic and geological activity, with the observational record often including clear evidence for...
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Overview of the Geology, Structure, and Tectonics of the Ladakh Batholith and Indus Suture Rocks
The Kohistan–Ladakh batholith forms the most voluminous geological unit within the Kohistan–Ladakh island arc terrane, constituting c. 80% of the...
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Tectonics and Seismic Interpretation
Tectonics deals with natural geologic stress and strain (deformation) affecting the structure of earth’s crust and its evolution in geologic times....