THE existence of a negative gravity anomaly of amplitude about 20 mgal below northern Skye was first pointed out by Tuson1, who interpreted it as being due to a sedimentary basin bounded at its NE margin by a large NW-SE fault. Our recent geophysical work confirms the existence of this basin, defines its margins more accurately, and provides evidence for the age of the infilling. Fig. 1 shows t...

PRIME Lab has a multidisciplinary external research program with projects in geomorphology, hydrology, ocean science, planetary science, environmental science and biology. Introduction PRIME Lab is a national AMS facility for measurement of the long lived cosmogenic nuclides Be, C, Al, Cl, Ca, and I [1]. Since its inception in 1991 we have chemically processed over 2000 samples and have measure...

The Heart Mountain allochthon is among the largest landslide masses in the rock record. The basal fault, the Heart Mountain detachment, is an archetype for the mechanical enigma of brittle fracture and subsequent frictional slip on low-angle faults, both of which appear to occur at ratios of shear stress to normal stress far below those predicted by laboratory experiments. The location of the d...

The Ab-Bid deposit, located in the Tabas-Posht e Badam metallogenic belt (TPMB) Central Iran, is largest Pb-Zn (±Cu) deposit Behadad-Kuhbanan mining district. Sulfide mineralization formed Middle Triassic carbonate rocks and contains galena sphalerite with minor pyrite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, barite. Silicification dolomitization are main wall-rock alteration styles. Structural textural obse...

A LENSOID mass of serpentinite is continuously exposed over some 650 m along the trace of the NNE.-trending Waipa Fault at Wairere (38~ 33" S., 175 ~ 2' E.) south of Te Kuiti (Fleming, 1948; O'Brien, I97O). Extensive quarrying of the deposit has revealed the presence of numerous highly-altered xenoliths of gabbro ranging in size from hand specimens to about 12o m a and exhibiting strongly groov...

Several large strike slip faults in central and northern California accommodate plate motions through aseismic creep. Although there is no consensus regarding the underlying cause of creep, aqueous fluids mechanically weak, velocity-strengthening minerals appear to play a role. This study integrates field observations thermodynamic modeling examine possible relationships between occurrence serp...

Introduction: Extensional fault scarps on Mars bear a striking resemblance to fault scarps on Earth, including geometric features such as horsts, grabens, relay ramps and breached relay ramps, en echelon arrangement of faults and grabens, and scaling characteristics [1], [2], [3]. Other surface features associated with extensional faulting on Mars are lines (" chains ") of circular topo-graphic...