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North America; Plate-tectonic setting and tectonic elements
1989Abstract This volume is about the evolution of the North America Plate. It also briefly discusses the evolution of the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean as they relate to North America. We will briefly sketch the present outlines of the North America Plate, review the plate-tectonic development of North America in a global context, and ...
A. W. Bally, C. R. Scotese, M. I. Ross
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Geological and Tectonic Setting
2011The present-day geological structure of the Carpatho–Balkan–Dinaric region is controlled by the evolution of the Tethys and Atlantic Oceans and the related movements of the European and the African Plates. The Carpathians, a continuation of the Eastern Alps, formed along the margin of the European Plate to effect the closure of the Neotethys and the ...
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Tectonic settings and magma associations
Bulletin Volcanologique, 1974The largest volumes of peralkaline silicic rocks are found in areas of epeirogenic uplift and rift formation on the continents, but they may also form in several other tectonic settings, such as the oceanic islands, during the later stages of orogenic cycles, as isolated occurrences in active mobile belts, and in areas of extensional tectonics at or ...
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Tectonic Setting of the Earthquake
2014The seismo-tectonic picture of the Lushan earthquake is clear at the scales of lithospheric plate and crustal block, but remains puzzle at the scale of seismogenic faults. Role of such ‘missing earthquakes’ in seismic hazard analysis is a question worth discussing.
Zhongliang Wu +4 more
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Tectonic Setting and Landscape Development
2009The Mediterranean is the westernmost part of the global-scale Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt which stretches from Spain to New Zealand. The landscapes of the region have a long and complex history that includes both horizontal and vertical crustal movements and the creation and destruction of oceans.
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Tectonic Settings of Potassic Igneous Rocks
1995Modern potassic igneous rocks occur in a wide range of tectonic settings, from continental to oceanic and within-plate, some of which are not apparently associated with subduction (Joplin 1968; Morrison 1980; Muller et al. 1992b). It is therefore important, whether improving exploration models for ancient mineral deposits, or reconstructing ancient ...
Daniel Müller, David I. Groves
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Tectonical-Geophysical Setting of the Caucasus
2012Many outstanding geologists such as G. V. Abikh, I. M. Gubkin, V. E. Khain, K. N. Paffenholtz studied the Caucasus. The Caucasus comprises four main morphological and tectonic units (Khain and Koronovsky 1997): (1) the Ciscaucasian plain (Scythian platform), including the foredeeps of the Greater Caucasus; (2) the Greater Caucasus itself, stretching in
Lev Eppelbaum, Boris Khesin
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Electrical Structure in Marine Tectonic Settings
Surveys in Geophysics, 2005This review paper presents recent research on electrical conductivity structure in various marine tectonic settings. In at least three areas, marine electromagnetic studies for structural exploration have increasingly progressed: (1) data accumulations, (2) technical advances both for hardware and software, and (3) interpretations based on ...
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Unraveling Earth History: Tectonic Data Sets
1996In this chapter, we discuss types of data sets available for discerning Earth tectonics todays that we feel have not been adequately explained by current tectonic hypotheses.
Arthur A. Meyerhoff +8 more
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Tectonic Setting of Chuan-Dian Region
2010The NEE-directing motion of the Indian plate and its collision into the Eurasian plate has resulted in the formation of the world roof – the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with an elevation of over 4,500 m. The crustal thickness of the plateau reaches up to 60∼70 km, about 20∼30 km thicker than that of the Sichuan basin, where the crustal thickness is only ...
Xing, Huilin, Xu, Xiwei
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