Large mountain ranges have depositional basins on both sides. These large mountain ranges can be created by subduction - volcanic mountain ranges - or by collisions - metamorphic mountain ranges.

A new study reconstructs how an ancient North American rift system was uplifted in space and time due to subsequent continent-continent collision.

and paleomagnetic data to the evolution of sedimentary basins and the tectonic development of the North American Cordillera - emphases in Mesozoic-Cenozoic forearc, intra-arc, strike-slip, and ...

One research focus is the mechanical interaction between groundwater and rock deformation, which was motivated by an apparent spatial association between some mountain belts and ore deposits in ...

2) I am also directing research defining climate-induced cyclicity in Pliocene through to Pleistocene strata in the Western Foreland Basin, Taiwan. This work is outcrop-based and involves descriptions ...

Researchers have explored the Archean basement of the Wyoming province, the Rocky Mountain foreland, the Alps, Pyrenees, Basin & Range province, San Andreas fault, the Colorado River corridor, ...

My work on CMBs occurs in both the Georgia Basin, Canada and the Western Foreland Basin, Taiwan. In the Georgia Basin, my students and I have developed and continue to refine a genetic stratigraphic ...

Precipitation - Rain, hail, sleet or snow which is input to the drainage basin system. Evapotranspiration - A combination of water evaporated from land and water surfaces, including vegetation ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A fall-run Chinook salmon was identified Wednesday by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's fish biologists in a tributary to the Klamath River above the former ...