Abstract Mountain building and the rock cycle often involve large vertical crustal motions, but their rates timescales in unmetamorphosed rocks remain poorly understood. We utilize high-resolution magneto-biostratigraphy backstripping analysis of marine deposits an active arc-continent suture zone eastern Taiwan to document short cycles oscillations. A basal unconformity formed on Miocene volca...

Abstract The Beishan orogen is part of the Neo-proterozoic to early Mesozoic Central Asian Orogenic System in central Asia that exposes ophiolitic complexes, passive-margin strata, arc assemblages, and Precambrian basement rocks. To better constrain tectonic evolution orogen, we conducted field mapping, U-Pb zircon dating, whole-rock geochemical analysis, Sr-Nd isotopic analysis. new results, w...

The classic Neotethyan Ankara Melange formed within the Triassic-Eocene İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan ocean (‘N Neotethys’), bordered in central Anatolia by Kırşehir and Tauride-Anatolide continental units to south discontinuous Sakarya continent northwest. Farther north, separate Intra-Pontide probably remained partly open until early Cenozoic. developed via phases of intra-oceanic accretion (mainly p...

In regard to the tectonic history of the Lachlan Fold Belt, Aitchison and Buckman (2012) argued that "numerous aspects of the observed geology appear to be incompatible with the existing model" and that an "alternative model envisages arc-continent collision events (quantum tectonics) as a primary means of largescale continental growth". My purpose is to challenge these arguments and to questio...

1. Dynamics of Earth and evolution. One of the reasons that evolution is hard to think about is because of the vast times involved in evolutionary processes. One of the more interesting things we have to remember is the interplay between the dynamics of the earth and the dynamics of the living organisms on earth. For example, think about the consequences of the closing off of the Isthmus of Pan...

using global free air gravity and topography data, first we have calculated a bouguer anomaly (ba) map for iranian plateau and then computed the residual isostasy anomaly map under the airy-heiskannen assumption. the term residual is used as to reflect the assumption of local isostatic compensation in contrast to a regional isostatic compensation. the value with which the gravity effect of the ...