—The transition to the diverse and complex biosphere of the Ediacaran and early Paleozoic is the culmination of a complex history of tectonic, climate, and geochemical development. Although much of this rise occurred in the middle and late intervals of the Neoproterozoic Era (1000–541 million years ago [Ma]), the foundation for many of these developments was laid much earlier, during the latest...

We suggest a method of fitting of the zero-range model of the tectonic plate under the boundary stress based on comparison of the theoretical formulae for the corresponding eigenfunctions/eigenvalues with the results of instrumental measurements of frequency and the shape and the shape of the relevant seismo-gravitational modes in the remoted zone. Comparison of the data of the instrumental mea...

Abstract The Kodiak Islands lie near the southern terminus of 1964 Great Alaska earthquake rupture area and within subduction zone segment. Both local trans-Pacific tsunamis were generated during this devastating megathrust event, but tsunami source region causative faults are poorly understood. We provide an updated view hazard for through modeling geophysical data analysis. Using seismic bath...

Introduction Changes in land surface shape in active tectonic  zones result from interplay between tectonic forces and surface processes (Keller and Pinter, 1996; Keller et al., 1999). Salt Domes  are dome-shaped Geological structures whose central core is composed of salt. Their economic importance is due to the location of oil tanks in structures with salt domes and also the presence of sulf...

Evolutionary timescales have mainly used fossils for calibrating molecular clocks, though fossils only really provide minimum clade age constraints. In their place, phylogenetic trees can be calibrated by precisely dated geological events that have shaped biogeography. However, tectonic episodes are protracted, their role in vicariance is rarely justified, the biogeography of living clades and ...

Abstract Early Late Cretaceous uplift of Provence gave rise to the Durance Isthmus. In present study, U–Pb dating on calcite compressional structures related Pyrenean foreland deformation in shows that N‐S shortening occurred coeval with emersion Isthmus, through development combined top‐to‐the‐North NW thrusts between 97 and 90 Ma. This large‐scale event, recorded from Pyrenees Middle‐East reg...

Aim Worldwide distribution patterns of living animals are structured in multiple zoogeographical regions, characterized by faunas with homogeneous composition that separated sharp boundaries. These regions can differ depending on the considered animal group, probably because they have distinct characteristics such as dispersal, metabolism, or evolutionary history, and thus divergent responses t...