The Blue Nile Basin, situated in the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau, contains 1400 m thick Mesozoic sedimentary section underlain by Neoproterozoic basement rocks and overlain by Early–Late Oligocene and Quaternary volcanic rocks. This study outlines the stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Blue Nile Basin based on field and remote sensing studies along the Gorge of the Nile. The Blue ...

The Lower-Middle Triassic Moenkopi and Red Peak formations, which crop out throughout western North America, contain ubiquitous occurrences of tetrapod tracks attributed to reptiles (Peabody, 1948; Klein and Lucas, 2010; Lovelace and Lovelace, 2012). Although reptile skeletal remains from these formations are rare to non-existent, and largely restricted to the Holbrook Member in Arizona (e.g., ...

Abstract Non-archosaur archosauromorphs are a paraphyletic group of diapsid reptiles that were important members global Middle and Late Triassic continental ecosystems. Included in this the azendohsaurids, clade allokotosaurians (kuehneosaurids Azendohsauridae + Trilophosauridae) retain plesiomorphic archosauromorph postcranial body plan but evolved disparate cranial features converge on later ...

The initiation of a continental rift or the birth an oceanic basin, and their long-term evolution, are challenges in understanding evolution regional global tectonics. Rifts develop within interior margins plates, essentially as extensional structures, they have been studied widely since discovery plate eastern segment Paleo-Tethys traversed central Asia, its structural features, timing, geolog...