Present-day stress orientation in the Molasse Basin

Present-Day Stress Field of the Northern Perth Basin, Australia

Present-day stress field in the Gibraltar Arc (western Mediterranean)

[1] The Gibraltar Arc in the western Mediterranean consists of the Betic and Rif Alpine chains and the Alboran Sea Basin. Four types of stress indicators (wellbore breakouts, earthquake focal plane mechanisms, young geologic fault slip data, and hydraulic fracture orientations) indicate a regional NW–SE compressive stress field resulting from Africa-Eurasia plate convergence. In some particular...

Birthplace of Ismaeil Jorjani, a renowned Iranian physician: Jorjan (near the present-day Gonbad-e Kavus) or Urgench (in the present-day Uzbekistan)

Dear Editor, I would like to point out some issues regarding the article entitled "Sayyed Ismael Jorjani, The famous Iranian physician and philosopher" by Seyyed Alireza Golshani that has been published in the journal of Jorjani Biomedicine Journal Volume 2, Issue 2 (Autumn 2014 & winter 2015 2014) and is about the great 11th-12th century physician, Ismael Jorjani.  

Depositional and structural evolution of a foreland basin margin in a magnetostratigraphic framework: the eastern Swiss Molasse Basin

M. Mange Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, England Abstract This integrated study of the sedimentology, magnetostratigraphic chronology and petrography of the mostly continental clastics of the Oligocene to Miocene Swiss Molasse Basin underpins a reconstruction of facies architecture and delineates relationships between the depositional evolution o...

The Present Day Treatment

In the last three or four years the treatment of diabetes has been greatly simplified, and the introduction of insulin has enabled the general practitioner to treat diabetes with a considerable degree of success. Yet there still appears to exist some confusion as to the indications and contraindications for certain well established therapeutic measures in the management of diabetes. It is the p...