Abstract The Bohai Bay Basin in East Asia is a rift basin created by Cenozoic subduction of the oceanic Pacific plate beneath continent. Many prior studies suggest that was initially formed Paleocene with development several NNE-trending extensional grabens, but subsequently impacted right-lateral shear along these existing structures middle Eocene, transforming into transtensional and producin...

Possible geodynamic regimes that may have prevailed in the Archean are investigated by back-tracking the thermal history of Earth from the present-day conditions. If the temporal evolution of plate-tectonic convection is modulated by strong depleted lithosphere created at mid-ocean ridges, more sluggish plate tectonics is predicted when the mantle was hotter, contrary to commonly believed, more...

SUMMARY The Davie Fracture Zone (DFZ) evolved during the Jurassic and Cretaceous breakup subsequent drift of Gondwana off East Africa. This old weak zone has been reactivated evolution African Rift System. Recent faulting Cenozoic sediments in Kerimbas Basin northern Mozambique shows that they are affected by neotectonics. question is if how crustal fabric our research area modified rifting pro...

Successful scientific theories provide theoretical understanding for reliable deterministic or probabilistic forecasting of events. In the past decades the volume of data obtained within the fields of structural geology and tectonics has increased enormously, but the theoretical understanding of the processes that generate these data has not advanced at the same rate. For example, after decades...

The sub-Himalayan thrust belt is an active thrust wedge which progresses southward over the northdipping Indian plate. The north–south compression resulted in severe deformation of sedimentary rocks in this belt. Distinct thrust geometries and topography have evolved under the interaction between tectonic and erosional environments. To better understand the relationship between tectonics and to...

In the 1960s, geology was transformed by the paradigm of plate tectonics. The 1965 paper of Bullard, Everett and Smith was a linking transition between the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics. They showed, conclusively, that the continents around the Atlantic were once contiguous and that the Atlantic Ocean had grown at rates of a few centimetres per year since the Early Jurassic,...

We review recent developments in the study of volcanism and tectonics on Venus. Venus’s crust is basaltic, dry, and probably about 30 km thick. The mantle convects, giving rise to plumes, and has a similar composition and mean temperature (∼1300◦C), but a higher viscosity (∼1020 Pa s), than that of the Earth. Inferred melt generation rates constrain the lithospheric thickness to between 80 and ...