Richter, Marianne Nebel, Oliver Schwindinger, Martin Nebel-Jacobsen, Yona Dick, Henry J. B.
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Scientific Reports
Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by mid-ocean ridge basalts, which form along a network of divergent plate margins. Basalts along these margins display a chemical diversity, which is consequent to a complex interplay of partial mantle melting in the upper mantle and magmatic differentiation processes in lower crustal levels. Igneous differentiati...
Valagussa, A. Frattini, P. Valbuzzi, E. Crosta, G. B.
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Scientific Reports
The 7.8 Mw earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25th, 2015 triggered over 21,000 landslides over an area of more than 25,000 km2. These landslides contributed to mass wasting, partially compensating the tectonic uplift by the earthquake. In this paper we quantify the volume balance resulting from the 2015 earthquake uplift (or subsidence) and land...
Ma, Lichun Wang, Kai Zhang, Yu Tang, Qingfeng Yan, Hui
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Scientific Reports
The Quaternary Lop Nor playa is the largest production base of potassium sulfate in the world. It has a mining history of more than 10 years, and its share in the Chinese potassium sulfate market is about 50% to-date. In this basin, the high-salinity potassium-rich brines are mainly contained in Middle Pleistocene–Holocene glauberite strata. Based ...
Salem, Hilmi S.
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
The Stone (limestone) and Marble (trade name) Industry (SMI) is one of the most important and active industries in Palestine, as being economically and financially rewarding and greatly beneficial to the public and private sectors. This industry, which employs about 15,000–20,000 workers, contributes 20–25% to the total industrial revenues of Pales...
Balling, Philipp Grützner, Christoph Tomljenović, Bruno Spakman, Wim Ustaszewski, Kamil
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Scientific Reports
The Dinarides fold-thrust belt on the Balkan Peninsula resulted from convergence between the Adriatic and Eurasian plates since Mid-Jurassic times. Under the Dinarides, S-wave receiver functions, P-wave tomographic models, and shear-wave splitting data show anomalously thin lithosphere overlying a short down-flexed slab geometry. This geometry sugg...
Ahmadi, Hemayatullah Uygucgil, Hakan
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences
The application of remote sensing has significant time- and cost-saving benefits as a technological tool for the delineation of iron prospects. Afghanistan is a prime target for these methods owing to the presence of several metallic and nonmetallic mineral deposits, most of which remain undiscovered. This study aims to target iron prospective area...
Lan, Hengxing Zhao, Xiaoxia Macciotta, Renato Peng, Jianbing Li, Langping Wu, Yuming Zhu, Yanbo Liu, Xin Zhang, Ning Liu, Shijie
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Scientific Reports
Loess covers approximately 6.6% of China and forms thick extensive deposits in the northern and northwestern parts of the country. Natural erosional processes and human modification of thick loess deposits have produced abundant, potentially unstable steep slopes in this region. Slope deformation monitoring aimed at evaluating the mechanical behavi...
He, Chuanqi Yang, Ci-Jian Turowski, Jens M. Rao, Gang Roda-Boluda, Duna C. Yuan, Xiao-Ping
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Nature Communications
One of the most conspicuous features of a mountain belt is the main drainage divide. Here, the authors constrain the tectonic uplift and advection of a mountain belt from the location and migration direction of its main drainage divide.
Harris, RA Barall, M Lockner, DA Moore, DE Ponce, DA Graymer, RW Funning, G Morrow, CA Kyriakopoulos, C Eberhart‐Phillips, D
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Pandey, Arjun Jayangondaperumal, R. Hetényi, György Priyanka, Rao Singh Singh, Ishwar Srivastava, Pradeep Srivastava, Hari B.
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Scientific Reports
Historical archives refer to often recurring earthquakes along the Eastern Himalaya for which geological evidence is lacking, raising the question of whether these events ruptured the surface or remained blind, and how do they contribute to the seismic budget of the region, which is home to millions of inhabitants. We report a first mega trench exc...
