Determining absolute ages of orogenic faults is critical to understanding the deformation process in upper crust, but obtaining age remains a problem due lack readily available techniques. Carbonates occur as veins range geological settings, and thus it suitable mineral for U-Pb geochronology. Here, we apply new approach dating on syn-tectonic dolomite from Gelouang gold deposit western Qinling...

High-quality seismic data recorded during the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake (Mw=7.6) show that a smallscale orogenic process of both mountain-building and crust-thickening was simultaneously accomplished along one set of crustal-scale conjugated faults. Mountain-building near the surface was primarily produced by the main shock along an eastward low-angle thrust fault in the upper crust. In th...

The Alta Floresta Gold Province (PAAF) is abundant in gold deposits and, located the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, an ideal place to study geoelectric signature mineralization. Auriferous mineralization occurs along shear zones quartz veins and disseminated granites this region. Ores are associated with oxides sulfides, mainly pyrites. To identify primary or continuities mineralized zones, data...

A new method for the fabrication of microscale features in thermoplastic substrates is presented. Unlike traditional thermoplastic microfabrication techniques, in which bulk polymer is displaced from the substrate by machining or embossing, a unique process termed orogenic microfabrication has been developed in which selected regions of a thermoplastic surface are raised from the substrate by a...

Tourmaline-bearing quartz veins and replacement deposits, commonly copperand gold-bearing, are found in unusual concentration in northwestern Nevada and adjacent northeastern California in Triassic and Jurassic arc rocks and in the Cretaceous plutons that intrude them. Mines and prospects that exploit the tourmaline-bearing deposits are found in a zone approximately 70 miles long and 50 miles w...