[1] The southern flanks of the central Nepalese Himalaya correspond to a sharp transition in landscape morphology and bedrock mineral cooling ages that suggests a change in rock uplift rate. This transition can be explained by either (1) accretion of footwall material to the hanging wall across a ramp in the décollement separating India from Eurasia, thereby enhancing rock uplift rates above th...

SUMMARY The Davie Fracture Zone (DFZ) evolved during the Jurassic and Cretaceous breakup subsequent drift of Gondwana off East Africa. This old weak zone has been reactivated evolution African Rift System. Recent faulting Cenozoic sediments in Kerimbas Basin northern Mozambique shows that they are affected by neotectonics. question is if how crustal fabric our research area modified rifting pro...

Earthquakes have and continue to, occur worldwide, though some places are affected more than others by earthquake-induced ground shaking the same earthquake can cause damage in one area nearby locations due to site-specific geological site conditions, also known as local effects. Depending on chronology of earthquakes, various disciplines seismology include instrumental historical seismology, a...

T. A. Cunha,1,2 L. M. Matias,1,3 P. Terrinha,1,2 A. M. Negredo,4,5 F. Rosas,1,3 R. M. S. Fernandes1,6 and L. M. Pinheiro7 1Instituto Don Luiz (IDL-LA). Campo Grande, Edif ı́cio C8, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected] 2Unidade de Geologia Marinha, LNEG Bairro do Zambujal-Alfragide, Apartado 7586, 2611-901 Amadora, Portugal 3Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Campo ...