GSA s dynamic online journal, Geosphere, posts articles online regularly. Locations and topics studied this month include the Moine thrust zone in northwestern Scotland; the Eastern California shear zone; implementation of OpenTopography ; the finite evolution of mole tracks ; the southern central Andes; the work of International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 351; and the Fairweather fault, Alaska, USA.
Geosphere,
posts articles online regularly. Topics for articles posted for
Geosphere this month include a tale of five enclaves ; evidence
for mantle and Moho in the Baltimore Mafic Complex (Maryland, USA); and the
after effects of the 1964 Mw 9.2 megathrust rupture, Alaska.
From Ordovician nascent to early Permian mature arc in the southern
Altaids: Insights from the Kalatage inlier in the Eastern Tianshan, NW
China
Qigui Mao; Jingbin Wang; Wenjiao Xiao; Brian F. Windley; Karel Schulmann
.
Abstract:
The Kalatage inlier in the Dananhu-Haerlik arc is one of the most important
arcs in the Eastern Tianshan, southern Altaids (or Central Asian orogenic