The Barkol Tagh and Karlik Tagh ranges of the easternmost Tien Shan are a natural laboratory for studying the fault architecture of an active termination zone of a major intracontinental mountain range. Barkol and Karlik Tagh and lesser ranges to the north are bounded by active thrust faults that locally deform Quaternary sediments. Major thrusts in Karlik Tagh connect along strike to the east ...

We analyze geomorphic evidence of recent crustal deformation in the subHimalaya of central Nepal, south of the Kathmandu Basin. The Main Frontal Thrust fault (MFT), which marks the southern edge of the sub-Himalayan fold belt, is the only active structure in that area. Active fault bend folding at the MFT is quantified from structural geology and fluvial terraces along the Bagmati and Bakeya Ri...

We train neural models to represent both the optimal policy (i.e. thrust direction) and value function time of flight) for a optimal, constant acceleration low-thrust rendezvous. In cases we develop make use data augmentation technique call backward generation examples. are thus able produce work with large dataset fully exploit benefit employing deep learning framework. achieve, in all cases, ...

Re-evaluation of acoustic, gamma ray and dip meter logs from the Cominco American Federal No. 2 well in the Sevier Desert basin of west-central Utah sheds new light on the interpretation of Neoproterozoic and Cambrian stratigraphy and Mesozoic structure in a region that has been influential in the development of ideas about crustal shortening and extension. The most prominent of several major t...

Understanding the role of southeastern Tibetan thrust faults in development plateau topography is key to our assessment geodynamic processes shaping continental topography. Detailed structural analysis along ~400 km long Jinhe-Qinghe belt (JQTB) indicates post Late Eocene motion with a minor left-lateral component, inducing ~0.6 3.6 apparent vertical offset across fault. The exhumation history ...

The Dom Feliciano Belt in southern Brazil and Uruguay represents the western half of a Neoproterozoic orogenic belt located portion South Atlantic Orogenic System. Current interpretations are divided as to nature orogenesis this belt, part owing lacking geochronological constraints. Metamorphosed deformed supracrustal sequences Brusque Complex northern Belt, representing foreland, record onset ...

The September 21, 1999, Mw 7.6 Chichi earthquake destroyed several thousand buildings and caused more than 2000 fatalities in central Taiwan. The earthquake occurred along the Chelungpu fault, a thrust fault on the western flank of the Taiwan fold-andthrust belt. The surface rupture was more than 90 km long, and vertical displacements ranged from 3 to 8 m. Although pre-existing scarps were iden...

The highest elevation of the Tibetan Plateau, lying 5,700 m above sea level, occurs within the part of the Lhasa block immediately north of the India-Tibet suture zone (Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, YZSZ), being 700 m higher than the maximum elevation of more northern parts of the plateau. Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain this differentially higher topography and the rock uplift t...

Observations of P-to-S conversions from the seismic discontinuities near 410 and 660 km depth reveal the shoaling of the 410-km discontinuity and the deepening of the 660-km discontinuity beneath the Archaean cratons in southern Africa; consequently, the mantle transition zone is 20 km thicker than beneath post-Archaean regions and the global average. The discontinuity structure, combined with ...

Abstract Cross sections carry information on the spatial distribution of rock strata and development geological structures, it is an important data source for three-dimensional (3D) modeling. However, interpretation mapping structures in by means manual are inefficient costly, performance varies greatly with experts’ ability experience. The objective this article to develop automatic recognitio...