Rhodolith limestones occur in the upper part of Miocene infill Ronda Basin southern Spain. This basin was an embayment at margin Atlantic-linked Guadalquivir Basin, foreland Betic Cordillera. Messinian rhodolith crop out mesa Roman settlement Acinipo. They mostly consist trough cross-bedded rudstones, which change basinward to large-scale planar turn pass laterally and flat-bedded bryozoan ruds...

This note builds on an earlier Warta (Doust, 2022) that summarised the geological development of island Trinidad and margins Caribbean Sea. Parts Southeast Asia can be readily compared to these areas and, I believe, two provinces provide valuable analogues for each other. illustrate this by considering examples tectonic style taken from transpressional fold belts in eastern Java, evolution fore...

We summarize the feasibility of using geothermal energy from Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) to support communities with populations >3000 people, including those in northeastern British Columbia, southwestern part Northwest Territories (NWT), southern Saskatchewan, and southeastern Manitoba, along previously studied Alberta. The potential WCSB is largely determined by basin’s geomet...

Uplift and amalgamation of the high-elevation (>3000 m) Tian Shan Pamir ranges in Central Asia restricts westerly atmospheric flow thereby limits moisture delivery to leeward Taklimakan Desert Tarim Basin (<1500 m), second largest modern sand dune desert on Earth. Although some research suggests that hyper-arid conditions observed today developed by ca. 25 Ma, stratigraphic eviden...

Testing models that link climate and solid Earth tectonics in mountain belts requires independent erosional, structural climatic histories. Two well-preserved stratigraphic sections of the Himalayan foreland basin are exposed NW India. The Jawalamukhi (13–5 Ma) Joginder Nagar (21–13 dated by magnetostratigraphy span a period significant change tectonic evolution. We combine sediment geochemistr...

Recent studies have shown that biosignatures of ancient microbial life exist in mineral coatings deep bedrock fractures Precambrian cratons, but such surveys been few and far between. Here, we report results from southwestern Sweden an area 1.6–1.5 Ga Paleoproterozoic rocks heavily reworked by the 1.14–0.96 Sveconorwegian orogeny, a terrane previously scarcely explored for biosignatures. Calcit...