The Earth as a planetary system has experienced significant change since its formation c.
4.54 Gyr ago. Some of these changes have been gradual, such as secular cooling of the …

Ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) is a term used to describe the sequence of sedimentary and
volcanic rocks deposited on oceanic crust substratum from the time it forms at a spreading …

Accretionary orogens form at intraoceanic and continental margin convergent plate
boundaries. They include the supra-subduction zone forearc, magmatic arc and back-arc …

Southern India occupies a central position in the Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Gondwana
supercontinent assembly. The Proterozoic mosaic of southern India comprises a collage of …

The well-known southwest-to-northeast younging of stratigraphy over a present-day cross
strike distance of> 1500 km in the southern Tasmanides of eastern Australia has been used …

Lawsonite‐bearing metamorphic/metasomatic rocks form at high‐pressure–ultrahigh
pressure (HP–UHP) and low‐temperature (LT) conditions, commonly in Pacific‐type …

Glacial depositions are widely discovered in the late Ediacaran strata all over the world, but
the temporal and spatial distributions of the Ediacaran glaciations remain poorly …

Nucleation of earthquake slip at the plate boundary fault (décollement) in subduction zones
has been widely linked to the frictional properties of subducting sedimentary facies …

Subduction zones provide important constraints on reconstruction of tectonic configurations
and convergent geodynamics. The timing and evolution of the subduction zones at the …

The Meguma Terrane of Nova Scotia and the Harlech Dome of North Wales preserve similar
sedimentary successions of Cambrian age. Both successions comprise a thick succession of …