Structural inversion related to intracontinental rifting occurs when extensional rift faults reverse their sense of motion during subsequent episodes of compressional tectonics. Features generated by extension, such as half grabens, are uplifted to form positive anticlinal structures. Mountain belts resulting from the convergence of continent-continent or continent-oceanic plates usually form a...

The Paramirim Aulacogen was filled by the Espinhaço and São Francisco supergroups in period from 1.75 to 0.69 Ga, suffered partial inversion during Ediacaran. In northern sector of intracontinental domain Araçuaí-WestCongo Orogen, six compressive deformational phases were interpreted associated with frontal Aulacogen. Three structural domains identified: Jacaraci Fold-Thrust Belt, Caetité Nappe...

Intracontinental transform structures are important forms of continental deformation, such as the Altyn Tagh fault on Tibetan Plateau. Although many intracontinental have developed throughout geological history, their identification is relatively difficult due to later deformation and sedimentary covering. Strike-slip faults played an role in formation subsequent transformation Central Asian or...

In orogenic belts, a basal décollement zone often develops at depth to accommodate the shortening due to folding and thrusting of the sedimentary cover. In the Early Mesozoic intracontinental Xuefengshan Belt of South China, such a décollement zone is exposed in the core of anticlines formed by the emplacement of the late-orogenic granitic plutons. The detailed, multi-scale structural analysis ...

Abstract The western Tianshan Gold Belt hosts numerous giant and large gold deposits that have been formed during the late Paleozoic amalgamation of orogen. However, little is known about their exhumation histories Mesozoic to Cenozoic intracontinental evolution Carboniferous Katebasu orogenic deposit in northwestern China a new discovery within Belt, it shares many similarities with other belt...

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 ...

The opening of the South Atlantic Ocean is one of the most extensively researched problems in plate kinematics. Models of it have proliferated since Bullard, Everett and Smith [8] published the first-ever computer-assisted reconstruction in the 60s. In recent years, focus has shifted to understanding the early stages of continental separation. General agreement exists about ocean opening being ...