Myanmar and its surrounding areas have complex topography strong tectonic movement, which has always been a challenge to most geoscientists. We used teleseismic tomography study the subsurface velocity structure in this area. present new P-wave tomographic model beneath by inverting 129,788 arrival-time data recorded 372 stations. found an inclined high-velocity subducting plate central Myanmar...

This paper presents the bearing capacity determination of strip footing placed on sand underlain by clay and subjected to inclined loading. The equation is derived within framework limit equilibrium following projected area approach. inclinations load spread were selected performing an additional finite element analysis. A parametric study was conducted highlight effect various input parameters...

Regions near Enceladus’ equator, Sarandib and Diyar Planitia, contain extensive sets of parallel ridges and troughs that may be diagnostic of the region’s formation conditions. We present photoclinometry profiles across these ridges and troughs, which indicate that they are periodic, low-slope features with dominant wavelengths of 3 to 4 km and amplitudes between 100 and 400 m. The morphology o...

Weathering on mountain slopes converts rock to sediment that erodes into channels and thus provides streams with tools for incision into bedrock. Both the size and flux of sediment from slopes can influence channel incision, making sediment production and erosion central to the interplay of climate and tectonics in landscape evolution. Although erosion rates are commonly measured using cosmogen...

The Mongolian Plateau is dominated by grassland ecosystems. It frequently experiences drought and is underlain by permafrost in the north. Its complex responses of plant carbon uptake and soil carbon release to climate change are considered to have affected the global carbon cycle during the 21st century. Here we combine spatially explicit information on vegetation, soils, topography and climat...

As ice retreated from southern coastal Maine from 15,000 to 13,000 years ago, the ocean inundated coastal areas where the earth’s crust had been temporarily depressed by the weight of glacial ice. A thick veneer of glacial-marine clay and silt – the Presumpscot Formation – was deposited in coastal Maine lowlands. Due to its fine-grained character, shear waves from seismic events travel slowly t...