The Earth as a planetary system has experienced significant change since its formation c.
4.54 Gyr ago. Some of these changes have been gradual, such as secular cooling of the …

Mélanges represent a significant component of collisional and accretionary orogenic belts.
We present a comparison of subduction-accretion mélanges of different ages to test how …

The Alps are amongst the best subduction archives in the world, with abundant blueschists
and eclogites preserving fragments of mantle, gabbros, thinned continental margin and …

The Altaids accreted around, and grew southward, from the Siberian craton, but the time of
final amalgamation of this orogen is still controversial. The Eastern Tianshan in the …

The East Kunlun Orogen on the northern margin of the Tethyan orogenic system records a
history of Gondwana dispersal and Laurasian accretion. Uncertainties remain regarding the …

Northeast (NE) China is located in the eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) and
evolved from the amalgamation of several microcontinental blocks, which, from west to east …

The Araçuaí orogen and West Congo belt make up a singular confined orogenic system,
embraced by the San Francisco–Congo craton: the AWCO. It includes a southern sector with …

The paleogeographic position of the North Qiangtang Block, as well as the origin of the
Central Qiangtang Metamorphic Belt (CQMB) have subjected to considerable debate that …

Most of mélanges occurring in exhumed subduction complexes and orogenic belts are
commonly interpreted as the product of tectonic processes (eg, underplating and return flow) …

Abstract The terms “bimrocks”,“bimsoils” and “soil-rock mixtures” indicate different and very
common types of geological units with a block-in-matrix fabric that are also “geotechnically …