The development of regional metamorphism in areas of thickened continental crust is investigated in terms of the major controls on regional-scale thermal regimes. These are: the total radiogenic heat supply within the thickened crust, the supply of heat from the mantle, the thermal conductivity of the medium and the length and time scales of erosion of the continental crust. The orogenic episod...

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 ...

14C-dated Holocene coastal uplift, conventional and satellite geodetic measurements, and coseismic and aseismic fault slip reveal the pattern of distributed deformation at Taiwan resulting from convergence between the Philippine Sea plate and Eurasia; as in other subduction orogenic settings, the locus of strain release and accumulation is strongly influenced by changes in fault geometry across...

The Apennines are a retreating collisional belt where the foreland basin system, across large domains, is floored by subaerial forebulge unconformity developed due to uplift and erosion. This overlain diachronous sequence of three lithostratigraphic units made (a) shallow-water carbonates, (b) hemipelagic marls shales (c) siliciclastic turbidites. Typically, latter two have been interpreted reg...

The cause of mad honey poisoning is the toxin grayanotoxin, found in honey obtained from the nectar of Rhododendron species on the higher altitudes. This case report is about seven cases of grayanotoxin poisoning that occurred after consumption of wild honey that was brought from the Himalayan belt of Nepal. Most of them presented with symptoms of blurring of vision, diplopia, nasea and vomitin...

The European Alps are a mountain belt that is characterized by a series of discrete orogenic events, which have long been recognized. Despite the inherent episodic nature of orogenic evolution, the Alps have been continuously exhumed, mainly by erosion, but also by normal faulting. Since continental collision started in the late Eocene/Early Oligocene evidence for ongoing erosional exhumation h...

The Paleo-Asian Ocean controlled the tectonic evolution of Northeast Asia and formed Karamaili Orogenic Belt in eastern Junggar basin. However, chronological constrain paleo-Karamaili remains unclear. In this study, we focused on sandstones Lower Jurassic Badaowan Sangonghe Formations Dongdaohaizi Depression, basin near orogenic belt. After detailed observations descriptions macroscopic feature...