Morphotectonic evolution of rifted continental margins: Inferences from a coupled tectonic-surface processes model and fission track thermochronology

Thermal Anomaly and Strength of Atotsugawa Fault, Central Japan, Inferred from Fission-Track Thermochronology

Exhuming the Alps through time: clues from detrital zircon fission-track thermochronology

The European Alps are a mountain belt that is characterized by a series of discrete orogenic events, which have long been recognized. Despite the inherent episodic nature of orogenic evolution, the Alps have been continuously exhumed, mainly by erosion, but also by normal faulting. Since continental collision started in the late Eocene/Early Oligocene evidence for ongoing erosional exhumation h...

Apatite fission track age of Mesozoic sandstones from Beipiao basin, eastern China: Implications for basin provenance and tectonic evolution

The apatite fission track (FT) analysis of Jurassic sandstones from the Beipiao basin in the eastern China indicates a large variation in FT age peaks. The sandstone of the Beipiao Formation has two peak ages at 178.8 and 40.0 Ma, while the sandstone of the Tuchengzi Formation has three age peaks at 152.0, 77.5 and 32.5 Ma. This implies that the provenance of the Beipiao basin in the early Jura...

Tectonic evolution of a continental collision zone: A thermomechanical numerical model

[1] We model evolution of a continent-continent collision and draw some parallels with the tectonic evolution of the Himalaya. We use a large-scale viscoplasto-elastic thermomechanical model that has a free upper surface, accounts for erosion and deposition and allows for all modes of lithospheric deformation. For quartz/olivine rheology and 60 mm/yr convergence rate, the continental subduction...

Evolution of the Kap Edvard Holm Complex : a Mafic Intrusion at a Rifted Continental Margin

The Kap Edvard Holm Layered Series forms part of the East Greenland Tertiary Province, and was emplaced at shallow crustal level (at depths corresponding to a pressure of 1-2 kbar) during continental break-up. It consists of two suites: a gabbro suite comprising olivine and oxide gabbros, leucocratic olivine gabbros and anorthosites, and a suite of wehrlites that formed from the intrusion of th...