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Itinerary 5. Aspects of the North-Pyrenean Zone and its Foreland: Agly, Fenouillèdes, Razès, Pays de Sault
Itinerary 5 offers a discovery of Alpine geological structures in the North-Pyrenean Zone and clues to the area’s geomorphological evolution during...
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Evolution of Damodar Fan Delta in the Western Bengal Basin, West Bengal
Fan delta is formed when an alluvial fan prograde directly into the standing body of water from the adjacent highland. An ancient fan delta was...
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Sedimentary evolution and control factors of the Rizhao Canyons in the Zhongjiannan Basin, western South China Sea
Submarine canyon is an important channel for long-distance sediment transport, and an important part of deep-water sedimentary system. The...
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Application of channel-belt scaling relationship to Middle Jurassic source-to-sink system in the Saishiteng area of the northern Qaidam Basin, NW China
Palaeodrainage basin, as an important component of the source-to-sink system, contains critical information on provenance and palaeoenvironment....
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Basin Analysis: The Sedimentary Record of Orogenic Growth and Decay
The denudation history of mountain belts is recorded in the clastic sedimentary components of their adjacent basins, with marine incursions...
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Lake Logipi and the Suguta Valley
The north-south trending Suguta Valley is defined by monoclines and faults along its lateral margins. The valley is separated from Lake Turkana to...
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The South Kenya Rift Basins
Miocene lake and terrestrial siliciclastic deposits at Lemudong’o contain a rich vertebrate fauna. In contrast, the Lower Pleistocene Munya wa...
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Map** of the Buried Paleochannels on the Terminal Fans in the Western Ganga Plain: A Geomorphological and Ground Penetrating Radar-based Approach
Paleochannels are valuable tools for delineating tectonics, climate, anthropogenic activities, reconstructing the paleogeography, and studying the...
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Evolution of the Drainage System in Yamuna-Sutlej Interfluve — Multi-disciplinary Approach
The Yamuna-Sutlej interfluve area has been important because of the presence of several palaeochannels that are hypothesized to be linked to Rigvedic...
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The Lesser-Known Lakes and Wetlands of the Kenya Rift
Many small lakes and wetlands are present in the Kenya Rift. A few, such as Lake Sonachi, have been studied; others have received little attention....
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Itinerary 7. Elevated Ranges and Interior Basins of the Axial Zone: The Upper Cerdagne Basin, Capcir Basin, and their Surrounding Massifs
Itinerary 7 aims to extend the understanding of Neogene landscape evolution already partly gained from the Roussillon and Conflent basins. Focus is...
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The Neogene Siwalik Succession of the Arunachal Himalaya: A Revised Lithostratigrphic Classification and its Implications for the Regional Paleogeography
Marine deposits in the Neogene Siwalik succession have been documented from the Tista valley, Bhutan and Kameng river sections of the Eastern...
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Tracing of palaeochannels of Bakulahi river system in Uttar Pradesh, India
Palaeochannels can be good possible reservoirs of groundwater and are good rechargeable aquifers. Bakulahi is a plain-fed tributary of the Sai River...
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An Overview on 40 Years of Remote Sensing Geology Based on Arab Examples
Remote sensing techniques are particularly suitable for geological studies in arid regions such as the Arab world. Here, we present an overview of...
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Itinerary 6. Elevated Ranges and Interior Basins of the Axial Zone: The Conflent Basin and its Surrounding Massifs
Itinerary 6 follows the Têt River valley and opens a window onto the Paleozoic geological structure of the Axial Zone (lithostratigraphy, Hercynian...
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Blue Arabia, Green Arabia: Examining Human Colonisation and Dispersal Models
The dispersal of hominins (our species and our closely related bipedal ancestors) out of Africa is a major topic in human evolutionary studies. As a...
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A geochemical and micro-textural comparison of basalt-hosted chalcedony from the Jurassic Drakensberg and Neoarchean Ventersdorp Supergroup (Vaal River alluvial gravels), South Africa
South African basalt-hosted chalcedonies provided an ideal case study, to (a) achieve information about the origin of mineral-forming fluids, the...
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Saraswati River: It’s Past and Present
Vedic Saraswati River flowed in full vigour about 5000 year BP and before as an independent river system between the Indus and Ganga systems. The...
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Relation of submarine landslide to hydrate occurrences in Baiyun Depression, South China Sea
Submarine landslides have been observed in the Baiyun Depression of the South China Sea. The occurrence of hydrates below these landslides indicates...
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Mighty Tempestuous River
A look at the map of the Indo-Gangetic Plains would make it quite obvious that a vast expanse of the land between the Yamunā and Satluj rivers is a...