Latitudinal gradients in topography, relief, climate, and deformation have been used to suggest that climate-driven erosion has exerted a first order control on the development of the central Andes. We synthesize the spatial and temporal variations in denudation across the eastern Bolivian Andes (14-22°S) from new and existing estimates to test whether physical evidence exists to support the hy...

Abstract The interpretation of seismotectonic processes within the uppermost few kilometers Earth’s crust has proven challenging due to often significant uncertainties in hypocenter locations and focal mechanisms shallow seismicity. Here, we revisit seismic sequence Saint-Ursanne March April 2000 apply advanced seismological analyses reduce these uncertainties. sequence, consisting five earthqu...

This study measures the uplift rates of a flight of marine terraces along the Glenafric coastal region of the South Island of New Zealand, which will provide a context for how local fold growth in the North Canterbury fold and thrust belt (NCFTB) contributes to local uplift rates. Several methods were used to measure uplift rate of the marine terraces: 1) collecting shell samples for AAR dating...

The far western Aleutian Island Arc is actively colliding with Kamchatka. Westward motion of the Aleutian Arc is brought about by the tangential relative motion of the Pacific plate transferred to major, right-lateral shear zones north and south of the arc. Early geologic mapping of Cape Kamchatka (a promontory of Kamchatka along strike with the Aleutian Arc) revealed many similarities to the g...

Introduction The vertical and horizontal movements of the Earth crust have caused extensive changes in surface phenomena, in the active tectonic regions. In order to measure some of these changes, morphometry analyses have been used to evaluation of the amount of tectonic activity. These analyses are useful tools for analyzing existing feature at the ground level and provide a proper understan...

The Bitlis-Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt is one of the world?s largest deformation zones, extending from Eastern Mediterranean in southern Turkey to south Iran. This zone partitioned between different structures; however, little known about relative activities these structures and their effects on topography. An area located northern part Bitlis- Zagros Belt, just Anatolian Plateau was studied detail...

The Paramirim Aulacogen was filled by the Espinhaço and São Francisco supergroups in period from 1.75 to 0.69 Ga, suffered partial inversion during Ediacaran. In northern sector of intracontinental domain Araçuaí-WestCongo Orogen, six compressive deformational phases were interpreted associated with frontal Aulacogen. Three structural domains identified: Jacaraci Fold-Thrust Belt, Caetité Nappe...

Despite their markedly different structural setting, the northern and southern outer Albanides share a common tectonic evolution from detachment-dominated to ramp-dominated, basement-involved thrusting. The former process (mainly Oligocene Miocene) is essentially related with occurrence of thick décollement level represented by Triassic evaporites, while latter involves basement ramps splaying ...