Field investigations and analyses of satellite images and aerial photographs reveal that the 2016 Mw 7.1 (Mj 7.3) Kumamoto earthquake produced a ∼40-km surface rupture zone striking NE-SW on central Kyushu Island, Japan. Coseismic surface ruptures were characterized by shear faults, extensional cracks, and mole tracks, which mostly occurred along the pre-existing NE-SW-striking Hinagu-Futagawa ...

The Variscan French Massif Central experienced two successive stages of extension from Middle Carboniferous to Early Permian. In the northern Massif Central, the first stage began in the late Visean, immediately after nappe stacking, and is well recorded by NamurianWestphalian synkinematic plutonism. The Middle Carboniferous leucogranites widespread in the NW Massif Central (Limousin and Sioule...

The Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic is known for its multiple inversion events, which affected Central Europe's intracontinental sedimentary basins. Based on a 2D seismic profile network imaging the basin fill without gaps from base Zechstein seafloor, we investigate nature and impact of these events salt structures in Baltic sector North German Basin. These insights improve understanding structure...

Favourable conditions for geothermal energy were created in Turkey during its neotectonic episode from Neogene to Quaternary. This is characterized mainly by fluvio-lacustrine sedimentation and strike-slip tectonics with associated magmatism. Under these conditions, a great number of areas have formed the provinces association major tectonic features, including North East Anatolian Fault Zones ...

New Zealand’s newest and most active volcano, Mt. Ngauruhoe in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, produced andesite fl ows in 1949 and 1954, and avalanche deposits in 1975. Potassium-argon “dating” of fi ve of these fl ows and deposits yielded K-Ar model “ages” from <0.27 Ma to 3.5±0.2 Ma. “Dates” could not be reproduced, even from splits of the same samples from the same fl ow, the explanation being var...