Strain patterns within the forearc at a convergent margin adjacent to a passing fault-fault-trench triple junction show a systematic evolution. We describe late Neogene and Quaternary deformation in northern coastal California in the last 3 m.y. associated with the migration of the Mendocino triple junction. Deformation in the North American forearc near Humbolt Bay consists of a 30-km-wide zon...

The transition along the strike of Sunda subduction zone, from oceanic in west to continental Australian lithosphere east is envisioned as one canonical examples structural changes that take place within an overriding plate when a wedge enters zone. Yet, along-strike offset trench toward margin represents response opposite predictions numerical models. To understand this paradox, we analyse mor...

Geologic and chronometric studies of alluvial fan sequences in south-central Australia provide insights into the roles of tectonics and climate in continental landscape evolution.The most voluminous alluvial fans in the Flinders Ranges region have developed adjacent to catchments uplifted by Plio-Quaternary reverse faults, implying that young tectonic activity has exerted a ¢rstorder control on...

Abstract The Eastern California shear zone is a complex set of dextral faults that accommodates significant plate motion and has produced large earthquakes. evolution this system why it consists closely spaced, irregular fail in multi‐fault ruptures are not well understood. Here we analyze the geometry, spatial distribution, Quaternary slip activity right‐lateral southern Mojave block. We find ...

introduction in spite of its short time period compared with the earth long evolution history, quaternary has had a significant effect on the final formation of the landforms and vital resources. it is the final analysis of these levels and fully dependent on the earth genetic diseases and, above all, significant climate changes that have happened during this period. gavkhouni basin morphologic...

Abstract Several orogenic belts exhibit regional-scale anticlines characterized by prominent faults in their crestal/forelimb zone. These are also a common feature the Neogene fold-and-thrust belt of Apennines, where they have been contrastingly interpreted as younger-on-older thrust faults, large-scale strike-slip and pre- or syn-thrusting normal faults. In this study, we analysed NW–SE-trendi...