Fold-and-thrust belts (FTBs) and foreland basins (FBs) generally evolve from the inversion and imbrication of former continental rifts/margins. Variations in the degree of pre-orogenic extension (limited lithospheric stretching vs full necking, mantle exhumation, oceanic crust production) impact pre-shortening thermo-mechanical state of the lithosphere, hence structural styles. Occurrence of evaporitic sequences exerts a key control on the mode and distribution of deformation of thrust sheets. Deformation can also be transferred ahead and downward of the shallow thrust front, leading to imbrication of deep seated structures in cratonic forelands or the sub-thrust region of FTBs.
Call for Papers
On April 25, 2015, a major earthquake (Mw = 7.8) struck Central Nepal, breaking a section of the broader Himalaya Front that has been largely quiescent in moderate-to-large earthquakes for much of the modern seismological era. The ensuing aftershock sequence was punctuated by a Mw 7.3 event 17 days after the mainshock, and a broad distribution of triggered avalanches and landslides. The combined effects of these earthquakes and secondary hazards have led to the Gorkha earthquake becoming the worst natural disaster in Nepal since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, causing close to 10,000 deaths and injuring over 23,000 people.
We welcome submission of full, regular or review papers to be collected within a coherent thematic volume of Tectonophysics dealing with the control exerted by faults and fractures on both migration and containment of fluids within upper crustal rocks, which is exemplified by the challenges posed by fractured carbonate reservoirs.
Deadline for manuscript submission: August 31, 2015
On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the forthcoming "Geodynamics and Environment in East Asia" International Conference (GEEA2014, 12-18 November 2014, Hualien, Taiwan).
Cratons, orogens, and basins of the world each show a distinctive pattern of evolution and metallogeny, and relationships to supercontinent cycles. Some aspects of these histories have remained similar through time, yet others have changed with Earth’s changing biota, heat production and flow, and atmospheric composition and temperature.