Is the Earth lazy? A review of work minimization in fault evolution

ML Cooke, EH Madden - Journal of Structural Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The principle of work minimization has been used in various forms to account for the
development of active fault systems within a wide range of tectonic settings. We review the …

Detrital zircon provenance from three turbidite depocenters of the Middle–Upper Triassic Songpan-Ganzi complex, central China: Record of collisional tectonics …

AL Weislogel, SA Graham, EZ Chang… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
To test the idea that the voluminous upper Middle to Upper Triassic turbidite strata in the
Songpan-Ganzi complex of central China archive a detrital record of Dabie ultrahigh …

准噶尔盆地西北缘扇体形成特征及油气分布规律

雷振宇, 卞德智, 杜社宽, 蔚远江, 马辉树 - 石油学报, 2005 - syxb-cps.com.cn
准噶尔盆地西北缘广泛发育二叠纪-侏罗纪冲积扇, 水下扇, 扇三角洲等砾质粗碎屑沉积.
研究结果表明, 其成因和分布与同期的断裂活动有密切的关系, 从二叠纪-侏罗纪 …

Erosion and exhumation in accretionary orogens: Experimental and geological approaches

E Konstantinovskaia… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the role of erosion on exhumation and deformation history of
accretionary orogens through experimental and geological methods. Fault propagation …

Out‐of‐sequence thrusting in polycyclic thrust belts: An example from the Mesozoic Yanshan belt, North China Craton

C Li, C Zhang, TD Cope, Y Lin - Tectonics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The EW trending Yanshan belt, an intraplate fold‐thrust belt located in the northern North
China Craton that has experienced several episodes of deformation widely separated in …

Syntectonic sedimentation effects on the growth of fold-and-thrust belts

C Fillon, RS Huismans, P van der Beek - Geology, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We use two-dimensional mechanical models to investigate the effects of syntectonic
sedimentation on fold-and-thrust belt development, testing variable syntectonic (wedge-top …

Episodicity and rates of thrust-sheet motion in the Himalayas (western Nepal)

JL Mugnier, P Huyghe, P Leturmy, F Jouanne - 2004 - archives.datapages.com
The kinematics and rates of displacement along single faults of the Outer Belt and through
the entire thrust belt of the Himalayas of western Nepal have been estimated by structural …

The structure and fault activity of the Makran accretionary prism

G Smith, L McNeill, TJ Henstock… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Makran Subduction Zone has the highest incoming sediment thickness (up to 7.5 km) of
any subduction zone. These sediments have formed a wide accretionary prism (∼ 400 km) …

Slip-partitioning above a shallow, weak décollement beneath the Indo-Burman accretionary prism

PM Betka, L Seeber, SN Thomson, MS Steckler… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Burman Ranges (IBR) are an∼ 375 km wide accretionary prism that
accommodates oblique convergence of the∼ 13–20 km thick Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta …

Modelling interactions between fold–thrust belt deformation, foreland flexure and surface mass transport

GDH Simpson - Basin Research, 2006 - earthdoc.org
Interactions between fold and thrust belt deformation, foreland flexure and surface mass
transport are investigated using a newly developed mathematical model incorporating fully …