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Arc Tectonic Elements and Upper Mantle Structure of Central and Southeast Asia: Seismic Tomography and Seismicity Data
Analysis of the upper mantle plumes spatial distribution in the inner part of the Sunda arc shows a number of plume bodies interrupting the stagnant slab framed from the south by the sinking slab of the Sunda ...
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Tectonic Aspects of the East Anatolian 06.02.2023 Earthquake in Turkiye*
During the East Anatolian earthquake with Mw = 7.8, which occurred on February 6, 2023 at 1:17 UTC, the 361 km long segment of the NE-trending East Anatolian active left-lateral fault zone (EAFZ) was activated. A...
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Khangai Intramantle Plume (Mongolia): 3D Model, Influence on Cenozoic Tectonics, and Comparative Analysis
The Khangai plume is situated under Central and Eastern Mongolia and is a mantle volume with significantly reduced longitudinal (P) wave velocities. The plume has been identified as a result of the analysis of th...
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Late Pliocene Gilbert Type Delta and Early Pleistocene Drainage System Changes in the Erzurum Basin, NE Turkiye
The Late Pliocene Gilbert-type delta is described in the western Erzurum Basin (NE Turkiye) and its position in the Late Cenozoic development of the basin is defined. The Erzurum Basin originated no later than...
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Erratum to: The Neotectonics and Geological Structure of the Sevan Intermountain Basin (Armenia): New Structural and Palaeontologic Data
An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852123140017
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The Neotectonics and Geological Structure of the Sevan Intermountain Basin (Armenia): New Structural and Palaeontologic Data
This article presents new data obtained as a result of field research in 2022 on the Sevan intermountain depression in Armenia. The emergence of the Sevan intermountain depression in the Miocene was associated...
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Development of the Southern Coastal Area of the Caspian Sea during the Pliocene–Quaternary According to Biostratigraphic and Magnetostratigraphic Data
The paper considers geological structure of the coastal region of the South Caspian, including paleontological and magnetostratigraphic dating of the Neogene–Quaternary deposits. Western and eastern segments o...
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Neotectonics and the Upper Mantle Structure of Central Asia
Studies carried out by the authors show that the uplift of Central Asia situated between the eastern Alpine–Himalayan and western Altai–Stanovoy orogenic belts formed in the neotectonic epoch. Major elements o...
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Active Tectonics of Central Asia
Central Asia exceeds neighboring territories in the intensity of Quaternary uplifts and active faulting. The active fault kinematics differ in the northeast of the region, from Middle Tibet to Eastern Sayan, a...
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Mesozoic–Cenozoic Structure of the Black Sea–Caucasus–Caspian Region and Its Relationships with the Upper Mantle Structure
Abstract—Mesozoic‒Cenozoic tectonic zoning and its evolution are characterized by analysis of geological data on the Black Sea–Caucasus–Caspian region. The following tectonic zones were located in succession to t...
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Tectonics of Pleistocene Deposits in the Northeast of Taman Peninsula, South Azov Sea Region
Studies in paleomagnetism, structural geology, and paleontology (mammals, mollusks, palynology) in the coastal sections of the Taman Peninsula north-western part (2017–18) resulted in definition of three sedim...
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Tectonic Phenomena and Supervising Underlying Geodynamic Processes
The study concerns two deep sources of tectonic processes in Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic which influence is transferred and enforced on the spheroid surface – Earth crust. The first source is mantle convection....
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Comparison of Tectonic Phases and Geomagnetic Reversals in the Late Mesozoic and in the Cenozoic
The authors consider the chronological relation of two groups of phenomena in the history of the Earth over the last 150 mln years. One of them is relatively short (a few million years) tectonic phases, or oro...
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Sublithospheric flows in the mantle
The estimated rates of upper mantle sublithospheric flows in the Hawaii–Emperor Range and Ethiopia–Arabia–Caucasus systems are reported. In the Hawaii–Emperor Range system, calculation is based on motion of th...
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Quaternary tectonics of recent basins in northwestern Armenia
New data on the stratigraphy, faults, and formation history of lower to middle Pleistocene rocks in Late Cenozoic basins of northwestern Armenia are presented. It has been established that the low-mountain top...
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Collision and mountain building
The spatial, chronological, and genetic relationships of recent (Late Alpine) collisions to mountain building are considered at three levels of scale: (i) in separate zones of the Arabian–Caucasus segment of t...
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Toward postplate tectonics
Half a century ago, principles of the theory of lithosphere plate tectonics, or plate tectonics, were first formulated. Since then, the theory has become substantially more complicated and tectonic processes a...
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Cyclicity of late Holocene seismicity in the Alpine-Himalayan belt
It has been shown for particular seismic zones and the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt as a whole that in addition to Fedotov cycles, the long-period hypercycles of seismicity are distinguished. Long-period var...
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Recent mountain building of the central Alpine-Himalayan Belt
From the end of the Eocene through the Pliocene, the Alpine-Himalayan Belt underwent collisional shortening induced by convergence of the Gondwana plates with the Eurasian Plate and varied in orientation from ...
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Role of the asthenosphere in transfer and deformation of the lithosphere: The Ethiopian-Afar superplume and the Alpine-Himalayan Belt
Seismic tomographic data showing the mantle structure of the Ethiopian-Afar superplume and various segments of the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt and their relationships with the adjacent megastructures of the...
