Our understanding of folds and folding builds on detailed geometrical analysis. Proper
description of folds and their relation to other structures such as fractures, cleavage and …

In recent years, China has made significant progress in exploring oil and gas in sandstone
and carbonate rocks with burial depths of more than 6000 m in the Tarim, Sichuan, and …

State-of-the-art analysis of geological structures has become increasingly quantitative but
traditionally, graphical methods are used in teaching. This innovative lab book provides a …

The Zagros fold-thrust belt in Iran forms the external part of the Zagros active orogenic
wedge. It includes a sequence of heterogeneous latest Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic …

The Qaidam basin is the largest topographic depression inside the Tibetan plateau.
Because of its central position, understanding the tectonic origin of the Qaidam basin has …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Many upper crustal folds on the scale of 1-10 km in compressive mountain belts grow by
kink-band migration as a result of fault-bend, fault-propagation, or box folding. One or both …

Cenozoic Qaidam basin, the largest active intermountain basin inside Tibet, figures
importantly in the debates on the history and mechanism of Tibetan plateau formation during …

Fault‐propagation folds commonly display footwall synclines as well as changes in
stratigraphic thickness and dip on their forelimbs, features that cannot easily be explained by …

Aesthetically appealing thrust systems and related large-scale anticlines, in both active and
fossil foreland fold-and-thrust belts, and the economic potential associated with them, have …