Showing papers in "Journal of Geodynamics in 2010"

TL;DR: COSMO-SkyMed as mentioned in this paper is a dual-use (civilian and defence) end-to-end Earth observation system aimed at establishing a global service supplying provision of data, products and services compliant with well-established international standards and relevant to a wide range of applications, such as Risk Management, Scientific and Commercial Applications and Defence Applications.

TL;DR: In this article, a short review of the INSAR basics is dedicated to readers who are not INSAR specialists, and an analysis of the improvement of ground motion measurement offered by multiple repeated space-borne SAR observations gathered by the new generation of high resolution SAR systems is given.

TL;DR: In the orogenic belts of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), many mafic and felsic plutons are temporally and spatially associated with orogen-scale strike-slip faults as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the mantle dynamics beneath the North China Craton (NCC) and surrounding regions based on a synthesis of recent P-wave mantle tomographic data down to depths of 600-800 km and their correlation with the surface geological features, with particular reference to the incorporation of the NCC within the Columbia supercontinent amalgam.

TL;DR: The Pampia cratonic block was the locus of several magmatic belts associated with important metamorphism during the Paleozoic and preserved in the central part at lower crustal levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the possibility that the Khanka/Jiamusi/Bureya block may have originated in Siberia and once formed part of the Sayan-Baikal orogen at ∼500 ǫ.

TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesis of some of the recent conceptual models suggests that mantle dynamics exerted a significant control on the assembly and breakup of supercontinents through the history of the Earth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the latest 3D velocity field of the Fennoscandian glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) process from BIFROST, which is derived from more than 4800 days (13 years) of data at more than 80 permanent GPS sites.

TL;DR: In this article, GPS observations in Morocco and adjacent areas of Spain from 15 continuous (CGPS) and 31 survey-mode (SGPS) sites extending from the stable part of the Nubian plate to central Spain were used to constrain models for the Iberia-Nubia plate boundary.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new paleomagnetic and geochronologic results from the Dharwar, Bundelkhand and Marwar cratons of the Indian subcontinent in an attempt to constrain the paleogeographic position of India within various proposed Precambrian supercontinents.

TL;DR: The Manamedu Complex as mentioned in this paper contains metamorphosed equivalents of the following lithological units: (1) an ultramafic group comprising dominantly of pyroxenite and highly altered dunite, locally preserving cumulate textures; (2) a gabbroic suite consisting of gabbros and mafic dykes of amphibolite to meta-andesite categories, (3) plagiogranite veins and pools; and (4) a thin layer of ferruginous cherts.

TL;DR: The six large fanning dyke swarms mapped using aeromagnetic data span two periods in the evolution of the Columbia supercontinent: (i) 1.9-1.7-Ga during and immediately following maximum packing of Columbia; and (ii) 1 3-1-2-2 -Ga during the period of final Columbia break-up as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The methodology can be used to estimate for any station how much the accuracy of the linear trend will improve when one tries to subtract the annual signal from the GPS time- series by using a physical model and it is demonstrated that for short time-series the trend error is more influenced by the fact that the noise properties also need to be estimated from the data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented LA ICP MS U-Pb age data on detrital zircons from sands of major Russian rivers: the Don, Volga, Ob', Yenisey and Amur.

TL;DR: In this article, two time series of 29 ERS-1/2 and 22 ENVISAT ASAR acquisitions of the Granada basin located in the central sector of the Betic Cordillera (southern Spain), covering the period from 1992 to 2005, were analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a relatively dense Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring network was established in 2003 to investigate contemporary neotectonic deformation on the eastern NAFZ and in its neighborhood.

TL;DR: In this article, the available geophysical data that includes gravity, seismic tomography, deep seismic sounding (DSS) and magnetotellurics (MT) from the Palghat-Cauvery Suture Zone (PCSZ), which is considered as a trace of the Gondwana-forming suture in southern India, was synthesized.

TL;DR: In this paper, double-difference relocations of 1402 aftershocks of the 2001 Bhuj earthquake were determined, using an improved 1D velocity model constructed from 3D velocity tomograms based on data from 10 to 58 threecomponent seismograph stations.

TL;DR: Paleoproterozoic collisional (internal) and accretionary (external) orogens, additionally constrained by the matches between the Archaean granulite-gneiss and granite-greenstone terranes, are used to reconstruct the MesoproTERozoic supercontinent Columbia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the idea of conditional probability to predict the next great (Ms ≥ 6.0 and Ms ≤ 6.5) earthquake around Tehran ( r ǫ ≥ 200 km).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a detailed study of the main active fault system, based on geological observations along the south-western flank of the Alpine arc, which runs along the edge of the Argentera-Mercantour range and can be followed down to the Mediterranean Sea.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D structural model of the angular unconformity at the pre-Upper Turonian times of the Allauch Massif (SE Provence, France) is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a multidisciplinary approach to describe the geometry, kinematics, age, paleostress field, and paleoseismological significance of ground ruptures filled by clastic sediments in the region.

TL;DR: In this article, a composite rheology model was proposed for a 3D spherical self-gravitating Earth and the effect of this model on sea level curves and uplift rate resulting from GIA was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the transmission of the tectonic regime from the Paleo-Asian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean during Mesozoic era was reconstructed using the modeling of Late Triassic (T 3 ) and Late Jurassic (J 3 ) stress fields employing two dimensional linear finite element models (2-D FEM).

TL;DR: Inversion of local earthquake travel times and joint inversion of receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocity measurements were used to derive a simple model for the velocity crustal structure beneath the southern edge of the Central Alborz (Iran), including the seismically active area around the megacity of Tehran as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the age relation between gneisses, metagranites and E˘ grigoz and Koyunoba granites was evaluated by isotope dating.

TL;DR: The Loncopue Trough is located in the hinterland Andean zone between 36°30′ and 39°S as discussed by the authors, and it constitutes a topographic low bounded by normal faults and filled by lavas and sediments less than 5 Ma old.

TL;DR: In this paper, an objective review of available evidence shows that the mountains of Norway are the result of uplift resulting from Cenozoic tectonism amplified by the isostatic response to resulting erosion, similar to many other continental margins around the world.

TL;DR: Piper et al. as discussed by the authors developed a palaeogeographic model based on the proximities recognized from geological evidence and the correlation of ∼2.7-2.2 Ga palaeomagnetic poles between Ur and Arctica.