In Kashmir Himalaya, the Medlicott-Wadia Thrust is a main active fault responsible for the crustal accretionary prism building during the Late Quaternary. Because of the long seismic silence during the last five centuries, it is a key structure to be studied in order to estimate the regional seismic hazard. In the Riasi area, the analysis of two paleoseismological trenches allowed us identifying and

Combining published age data and geological maps, we provide most updated information about the spatio-temporal distributions of Mesozoic granitoids and volcanic rocks in SE China. The outcrop areas of the Mesozoic felsic magmatic rocks with an interval of 10 Myrs are estimated, allowing us to put forward by far the finest evolution pattern of the spatio-temporal distributions of the Mesozoic magmatic

The Quaternary stratigraphy of many coastal areas in Southeast Asia is poorly understood. Developing a detailed framework is important as many coastal cities are built on these unconsolidated coastal-marine sediments. This study reviews the current understanding of Quaternary deposits in the Kallang River Basin, Singapore, using 161 boreholes to create 14 cross-sections and a 3D geological model. The

Magnetic susceptibility (χ) of loess-paleosol sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) has been widely used as a proxy for East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) precipitation variability. Such records typically show strong climate forcing in the ∼100 ka orbital eccentricity band, but exhibit weak precessional (∼23 ka) forcing relative to that seen in oxygen isotopes from marine sediments. This is puzzling

Loess is a type of Quaternary sediments of the wind origin in arid and semi-arid regions. This type of sediment is widely and thickly distributed in China, forming the Loess Plateau, which is the largest bulk accumulation of loess on the Earth. The Loess Plateau of China has received great attention from scientific communities, including geologists, geophysicists and engineers worldwide. Accordingly

There is a large compositional variation of I-type granites. Although partial melting and fractional crystallization are the two primary mechanisms for the variation, it is intriguing to know how they jointly work. This issue is addressed by a combined study of geochemistry and phase equilibrium modelling for a Triassic pluton from the Qinling orogen. The pluton consists of high-K, calc-alkaline I-type

The 2008 MW 7.8 Wenchuan earthquake in China led to intensive studies on the development and dynamic mechanisms of the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt. To construct the uplift history of the Longmen Shan, previous works had undertaken numerous low-temperature thermochronological studies in mountainous area, in particular apatite and zircon (U–Th)/He dating, which provided valuable evidence for understanding