Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America regularly publishes articles online ahead of print. GSA Bulletin topics studied this month include the nature and dynamics of China and Tibet ...

Development of the Titus Canyon extensional basin precedes local Farallon slab removal by ~20 m.y., implying that other mechanisms, such as plate boundary stress changes due to decreased ...

My project aimed to better understand the extensional history of southwest Montana. ... This work provided the first detailed stratigraphic and geochronologic study of the Muddy Creek basin, providing ...

Strecker U, Steidtmann JR and Smithson SB (1999) A conceptual tectonostratigraphic model for seismic facies migrations on a fluvio-lacustrine in extensional basin. AAPG Bulletin 83: 43–61. Teng CY, ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their ...

This schematic diagram shows a typical extensional basin with features and processes that liberate lithium from source rocks. (Image credit: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology/Jowitt et al., 2024) ...

ReconAfrica is a Canadian oil and gas company engaged in the opening of the newly discovered deep Kavango Sedimentary Basin, in the Kalahari Desert of northeastern Namibia and northwestern ...

When the lithosphere is subject to a horizontal extensional force it will stretch, becoming thinner. Eventually, it will rupture, ... can lead to the formation of a new ocean basin.