which was associated with volcanic activity and the uplift of high mountains insouthern Asia, while at the same time the activecontinental marginof Asia was separated from the Indian Plate by the vast Paleotethys Ocean (Molnar, 1986;Yin, 2000;Botsyun et al., 2019). During 65–50 Ma, th...
Paleoarchean bedrock lithologies across the Makhonjwa Mountains of South Africa and Swaziland linked to geochemical, magnetic and tectonic data reveal early plate tectonic genes flanking subduction margins. Geoscience Frontiers 9, 603-665. [19] Didenko, A.N., Mossakovskiy, A.A., Pecherskiy, ...
Accessory columbite to tantalite, tapiolite and zircon: products of extreme fractionation in highly peraluminous pegmatitic granite from the Považsky Inovec Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia J. Geosci., 53 (2008), pp. 323-334 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Chung et al., 2003 S.L. Chun...
A drunken villager who was celebrating with his family when we came by for a break from the descent from the mountains. Tourism in the Rajasthan region of India is still growing strongly, with many resorts and hotels being built in the Thar desert, this was one of the workers at a resort...
China's northwestern region stretches from Afghanistan to the Northeast (Manchurian) Plain. The Tien Shan ("Celestial Mountains") separate China's two major interior basins, the Tarim Basin (containing the Takla Makan Desert) and the Junggar Basin. ...
Temperature variability and vertical vegetation belt shifts during the last ,50,000 yr in the Qilian Mountains (NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China). Quat. Res. 66, 133–146 (2006). 32. Zhang, B., Xu, J., Wu, H., Xiao, F. & Zhu, Y. Digital integration and pattern analysis...
Pacific Ocean. Its topography consists mainly of rugged mountains and it is a highly geologically active region. Large earthquakes are not uncommon Japan as it is located near the Japan Trench, where the Pacific and North American Plates meet. In addition, the country has 108 active volcanoes....
2). Overall, the structures consist of a large uplift (volcanic highland) and isolated groups of volcanoes. At the final magmatic stage, the central part of the structures collapsed due to the overweight of material erupted over the subsurficial magma chambers. Consequently, both VDs are ...