Tectonic Burial is the deformation of rocks caused by extreme pressure over millions of years. It often causes temperature evolutions and deep burials...
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Tectonics (from Latin tectonicus; from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') are the processes that result in the structure...
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Rock cycle (section Plate tectonics)
under a continent. Due to the driving forces of the rock cycle, plate tectonics and the water cycle, rocks do not remain in equilibrium and change as...
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Viedenská kotlina, Hungarian: Bécsi-medence) is a geologically young tectonic burial basin and sedimentary basin in the seam area between the Alps, the...
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the shorelines of these basins, leading to the burial of plant matter that later forms coal. Tectonic subsidence can occur in these environments as the...
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Salt tectonics, or halokinesis, or halotectonics, is concerned with the geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant thicknesses...
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Mountain formation (category Plate tectonics)
processes are associated with large-scale movements of the Earth's crust (tectonic plates). Folding, faulting, volcanic activity, igneous intrusion and metamorphism...
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Shield (geology) (category Plate tectonics)
Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that form tectonically stable areas. These rocks are older than 570 million years and sometimes...
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Metamorphism (redirect from Burial metamorphism)
S2CID 225617545. Gillen, Con (1982). Metamorphic geology : an introduction to tectonic and metamorphic processes. London: G. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-0045510580...
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Nankai Trough (section Rates of tectonic motion)
Sagami Trough. The Nankai Trough runs roughly parallel to the Japan Median Tectonic Line. Conventional geologic estimates of plate movement velocities are...
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not necessarily represent the maximum depth of burial, but can also represent a change in the tectonic pattern. Intrusions such as hotspots or rifts at...
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Orcadian Basin (section Tectonic setting)
exact extent of the Orcadian Basin is uncertain due to later tectonic effects and burial beneath younger sediments, but it is known to have reached from...
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Subduction (category Plate tectonics)
the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. Where one tectonic plate converges with a second plate, the heavier plate dives...
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Grenville orogeny (section General tectonics)
ionization mass spectrometry) uranium-lead dating. The first period of tectonic activity was the accretion of an island arc at some point during the Elzevirian...
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Valley of the Queens (section Burials)
19 tombs. The burials in the subsidiary valleys all date to the 18th Dynasty. The reason for choosing the Valley of the Queens as a burial site is not known...
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continents during the Cambrian is based on palaeomagnetic, palaeobiogeographic, tectonic, geological and palaeoclimatic data. However, these have different levels...
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Rift (category Plate tectonics)
the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called...
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The growth of juvenile continental crust as well as the onset of plate tectonics in the Archean allowed for the colonization of a larger variety of niches...
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Hadean (section Plate tectonics)
Hadean geophysical models remain controversial among geologists: plate tectonics and the growth of cratons into continents may have started in the Hadean...
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and the great pressure of the rock layers above. They can also form from tectonic processes such as continental collisions, which cause horizontal pressure...
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Great Oxidation Event (section Tectonic trigger)
enriched in sulphur formed around subduction zones confirms changes in tectonic regime played an important role in the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere...
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Maracaibo Basin (section Tectonic history)
complex tectonic history that dates back to the Jurassic period with multiple evolution stages. Despite its complexity, these major tectonic stages are...
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in Alberta, Canada. The structure was created due to the collision of tectonic plates about 59-75 million years ago that drove a several mile thick wedge...
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a focus for investigations on the emergence of life and the style of tectonics that operated on the early Earth. The Isua Greenstone Belt, also known...
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can be changed into quartzite through metamorphism, usually related to tectonic compression within orogenic belts. Sandstones are clastic in origin (as...
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Gulf of Mexico basin (section Tectonics)
stratigraphy which depended strongly on that tectonic development, is followed by a relatively calm tectonic period in the Late-Jurassic. The Late-Jurassic...
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The Niger Delta Basin lies in the south westernmost part of a larger tectonic structure, the Benue Trough. The other side of the basin is bounded by...
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thickening, extensional tectonics and erosion. Notably, there are overlapping characteristics between the different modes of burial and exhumation and distinction...
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which was associated with extensional tectonics and sinistral motion between the Laurentian and Baltican tectonic plates. The Caledonian orogeny put in...
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Earth system interactions across mountain belts (category Tectonics)
very different species. Tectonic uplift can cause changes in subsidence, chemical weathering rates, and organic carbon burial, which in turn may cause...
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