In the August 2014 issue of Lithosphere, Steve Israel of the Yukon Geological Survey and colleagues provide conclusions regarding the North American Cordillera that they say "are provocative in that ...

What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? The central question of this research addresses the timing of the onset of (extensional) accretionary ...

The Central Asian Orogenic Systems represent the largest Phanerozoic accretionary orogen on Earth, formed by the progressive closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean and attendant accretion of island arcs, ...

Geologists have now provided conclusions regarding the North American Cordillera that they say "are provocative in that they blur the definition of tectonic terranes, showing that many observations of ...

The study of Structural Geology and Tectonics concerns the deformation of the Earth's crust and mantle. The scale of observation can be from the submicroscopic level to a mountain chain like the Rocky ...

In the Ordovician, Gondwana in the area of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile had a west-facing active margin. The evolution of this margin culminated in the Oclóyic orogeny at the end of the ...