Boulder, Colo., USA: Several articles were published online ahead of print
for
GSA Bulletin in February. Topics include earthquake cycles in
southern Cascadia, fault dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico, debris flow after
wildfires, the assembly of Rodinia, and the case for no ring fracture in
Mono basin.
Jurassic evolution of the Qaidam Basin in western China: Constrained by
stratigraphic
succession, detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope analysis
Tao Qian; Zongxiu Wang; Yu Wang; Shaofeng Liu; Wanli Gao .
Abstract:
The formation and evolution of an intracontinental basin triggered via the
subduction or collision of plates at continental margins can record