The Cretaceous tectonic evolution of South China is characterized by widespread extensional
basin and dome generation, voluminous magma intrusion/eruption and associated …

The North American Cordilleran Orogen is the result of a two-stage process: (a) Triassic-Jurassic
accretion within Panthalassa forming SAYBIA, a composite ribbon continent, and (b) …

The Paleozoic Variscan orogeny was a large-scale collisional event involving amalgamation
of multiple continents and micro-continents. Existing data, suggests oroclinal buckling of an …

The mechanism of memory remains one of the great unsolved problems of biology. Grappling
with the question more than a hundred years ago, the German zoologist Richard Semon …

The Laramide orogeny is the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene (80 to 55 Ma) orogenic event
that gave rise to the Laramide block uplifts in the United States, the Rocky Mountain fold-and-…

Paleomagnetic studies place much of the Cordilleran orogen ≥3000 km south, relative to
autochthonous North America at 85 Ma. This conflicts with geological studies which have been …

… Cordillera has resulted in six situations of ridgejohnston@… Johnston, DJ Thorkelson/Earth
and Planetary Science Letters … ST Johnston, DJ Thorkelson / Earth and Planetary Science …

U‐Pb (zircon) crystallization ages of 52 late‐Variscan granitoid intrusions from NW Iberia (19
from new data, 33 from previous studies) constrain the lithospheric evolution of this realm of …

The Laramide orogeny is the Late Cretaceous to Palaeocene (80–55 Ma) orogenic event that
gave rise to the Rocky Mountain fold and thrust belt in Canada, the Laramide block uplifts …

An orocline is a thrust belt or orogen that is curved in map-view due to it having been bent
or buckled about a vertical axis of rotation. Two distinct types of oroclines are recognized: …