A new study shines a light on a system of earthquake faults in the San Francisco Bay Area that most residents don’t even know exists. The Foothill Thrust Belt faults are deep under Silicon Valley, and ...
Outline diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. (b) Schematic diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. A pioneering study published in Geoscience—a premier journal ...
Five Tertiary anticline oil fields had been found in the foreland thrust belt at the southern margin of the basin with oil in place of 61.61 million tons from 1950 to 1960 and a peak production of 1.4 ...
The controversial mechanism of klippes produced along the NE-striking Longmen Shan thrust belt (LSTB) in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, was the key point of comprehending tectonic ...
This is the second of two parts on oil and gas exploration in the Jiuxi basin in northwestern China. Exploration started in the basin in 1938. The basin has one of China’s earliest commercial oil ...
Table 1 Shortening data, T e estimates, age of collision and age of foreland lithosphere. Full size table The distribution of shortening estimated for mountain ranges that have reached a steady-state ...
BGS said it hoped the model would help understanding of the geological feature A 3D interactive model has been created of the geology in a part of the north west Highlands. The British Geological ...