The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) forms the northeastern part Arabian Plate that is colliding with Eurasian Plate. Due to ongoing collision, whole KRI territory folded; accordingly, long anticlines are developed in NW – SE trend, they change west wards almost E W. Cretaceous carbonate rocks form bulk anticlines; central KRG. North and northwest wards, Paleozoic, Triassic Jurassic ages exposed ...

Two main types of subduction zones can be distinguished: (1) those where the subduction hinge migrates away from the upper plate; and (2) those in which the subduction hinge migrates toward the upper plate. Apart from a few exceptions, this distinction seems to apply particularly for W-directed subduction zones and Eor NE-directed subduction zones, respectively. Moreover, the rate of subduction...

Global mantle convection significantly impacts the processes at Earth’s surface and has been used to gain insights on plate driving forces, lithospheric deformation, and the thermal and compositional structure of the mantle. Upper-mantle seismic anisotropy has been widely employed to study both present and past deformation processes at lithospheric and asthenospheric depths. The eastern China r...

A strong collision between the Eurasian and Philippine Sea Plates causes high seismicity in the Taiwan region. A substantial number of cities and large towns exist on thick sediments in western Taiwan. Larger-magnitude inland earthquakes, for example the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, can cause serious damage in urban areas. Consequently, urban seismology is of great interest to the local seismologic...

The stratigraphies of foreland basins have been related to orogeny, where continent-continent collision causes the construction of topography and the downwarping of the foreland plate. These mechanisms have been inferred for the Molasse basin, stretching along the northern margin of the European Alps. Continuous flexural bending of the subducting European lithosphere as a consequence of topogra...

Distance detection is a crucial issue for driver assistance systems and it has to be performed with high reliability to avoid any potential collision with the front vehicle. The vision-based distance detection is regarded promising for this purpose because they require little infrastructure on a highway. In this paper, a distance detection algorithm using stereo vision sensors is developed, in ...

abstract: there is always a need to increase a distillate output of solar still. if plates will be used inside solar still then distillate output of solar still are expected to increase. hence, an experimental study is conducted to improve distillate output of basin solar stills by increasing the effective surface area with the help of different plates. for the purpose of experiment, three sola...