The Taiwan orogenic belt results from convergence between the Philippine Sea plate and Eurasia since late Cenozoic. An extremely high exhumation rate has been observed in Backbone Range, which motivated interpretive models that show underplating as primary process driving uplift thickening. Here we integrate new (U-Th)/He fission-track dates of detrital zircons with previously published thermoc...

A significant amount of the ongoing shortening between Eurasian and Arabian plates is accommodated within Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt. However, spatial temporal distribution active belt, especially in its NW part, not yet well constrained. We determined depositional ages uplifted river terraces crossing belt along Greater Zab River using luminescence dating. Kinematic modeling fault-related fold wa...

This report presents the final results from this contract to analyze the seismicity of the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt (YFTB) region, Washington (Figure 1). The contract work involved the following: Apply conventional seismic tomography, using the public domain code simul2000 (Thurber and Eberhart-Phillips, 1999), to the YFTB region (121.25°W to 117.5°W and 45.5°N to 47.5°N) dataset of approxim...

Theoretical studies support the idea that internal dynamics of actively deforming mountain ranges are influenced by spatial and temporal variations in climate. The identification plausible correlations between orogen behavior external climatic processes requires, among other factors, initiation duration any deformation event be precisely constrained. Here, we add new detrital zircon U-Pb ages 1...

Thrusting implication in the crustal thickening history of eastern Tibet is highly debated. The ?250 km-long Muli thrust Yalong belt SE a major Miocene structure with pronounced topographic step (?2,000 m). Using thermo-kinematic modeling based on thermochronology data, we constrain geometry as being steep (>70°) at surface, agreement field observations, and flattening depth (?20 km) an intra-c...