The deformation of Earth's lithosphere in orogenic belts is largely forced externally by the
sinking slab, but can also be driven by internal delamination processes caused by …

Understanding the construction and stabilization of Archean continental lithosphere has
important implications for models of tectonic and thermal regimes in the early Earth, as well …

The Early Cretaceous Hohhot metamorphic core complex (mcc) of the Daqing Shan (Mtns.)
of central Inner Mongolia is among the best exposed and most spectacular of the spatially …

The controversial relationship between the orogenic segments of the Western Alps and the
Northern Apennines is here explored integrating recently published 3D tomographic models …

Granitic mylonites from the Pinaleño Mountains metamorphic core complex in southeastern
Arizona record general shear deformation. The mean kinematic vorticity number (Wm) was …

Nested elliptical closures defining “eye-folds” represent classic (y–z) cross sections through
highly curvilinear sheath folds generated during intense ductile deformation in metamorphic …

Abstract Interpretations of the structural/tectonic evolution of the Barberton Greenstone Belt
(BGB) and its surrounding granitoid rocks remain controversial, with proponents for both …

The Grenville orogenic cycle, between∼ 1190 and 980 Ma, involved accretion of magmatic
arcs and/or continental terranes to the Laurentian craton. A transect across the western …

The Sierra San Felipe, located in the Gulf Extensional Province of northeastern Baja
California, experienced a complex deformation history of integrated normal and strike-slip …

Curvilinear sheath folds are classically depicted as displaying symmetrical geometries about
two orthogonal mirror planes centred along the (X–Y) axial surface and the (X–Z) medial …