The Cenozoic sedimentary cover from the Ghomaride Complex (Internal Rif Belt) has been studied in Tetuan area (N Morocco) where a suite of successions shallow-marine to deep-marine environments crops out. For that purpose stratigraphic relations and petrological geochemical signatures have analyzed. Sandstone suites overall succession are heterogeneous testify multi-source area, response accret...

Metamorphism associated with orogenesis provides a mineral record that may be inverted to yield ambient apparent thermal gradients. On modern Earth, tectonic settings with lower thermal gradients are characteristic of subduction zones whereas those with higher thermal gradients are characteristic of backarcs and orogenic hinterlands. The duality of thermal environments reflects the asymmetry of...

Prospectivity modelling has been completed over the Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australia, using the GIS based weights of evidence modelling technique to target porphyry Cu-Au, associated skarn Cu-Au, orogenic Au and VMS Au mineralisation. The Lachlan Fold Belt is a 700 km wide belt of Paleozoic accretionary terrains, stretching from Queensland to Tasmania. Porphyry and skarn mineralisa...

[1] The reason for the survival of mountainous topography in ancient orogenic belts is a long-standing problem in geomorphology and geodynamics. We explore the geomorphologic controls on the timescale for the postorogenic decay of topography to address the question of whether there is a viable geomorphologic explanation for the persistence of topography in ancient orogenic belts or whether alte...

The Dobroe deposit with 10 t gold reserves is one of the mines located within Yenisei Ridge Orogenic Belt. ore-forming conditions orogenic deposits are have recently been widely discussed. A comprehensive study fluid inclusions revealed that was formed by water–carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide–hydrocarbon fluids a temperature range 180 to 360 °C, pressure 0.8 1.3 kbar, salinity 1.5 15.0 wt.% (...

Geochronology and thermochronology on detrital material provides unique constraints on sedimentary provenance, depositional ages, and orogenic evolution of source terrains. In this paper we describe a method and case-studies of measurement of both U/Pb and (U-Th)/He ages on single crystals of zircon that improves the robustness of constraints in each of these areas by establishing both formatio...