Recently added articles from Journal of the Geological Society:
A solution to Darwin's dilemma of 1859: exceptional preservation in Salter's material from the late Ediacaran Longmyndian Supergroup, England
Jan 01, 2009; ... Study of historical and fresh collections from the Longmyndian Supergroup sheds new light on Ediacaran microbial communities and taphonomy. First reported by Salter in 1856, and noted by Darwin in the Origin of Species in 1859, a range of macroscopic bedding plane markings are already well known ...
The significance of the contemporaneous Logoisk impact structure (Belarus) and Afro-Arabian flood volcanism
Jan 01, 2009; ... The relationships between meteorite impact craters, flood basalt volcanism and sudden environmental perturbation on Earth have been debated extensively. We present only the second example of contemporaneous meteorite impact and flood basalt volcanism: the 17 km diameter Logoisk impact structure ...
Degree of magnetic anisotropy as a strain-intensity gauge in a saturated finite-strain zone
Jan 01, 2009; ... Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analyses were carried out on mylonitic quartzites from the footwall of the Main Central Thrust Zone, Garhwal Higher Himalaya, India. A systematic increase in degree of magnetic anisotropy (P') with distance from the Main Central Thrust is documented, ...
New palaeomagnetic data from the Mahabaleshwar Plateau, Deccan Flood Basalt Province, India: implications for the volcanostratigraphic architecture of continental flood basalt provinces
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: New magnetostratigraphic data from seven Western Ghats sections in the Deccan Volcanic Province are presented. These are combined with an established geochemically defined stratigraphy, and volcanological logs, to provide a correlated, chronological eruptive framework. We ...
Kinematics of the Greater Himalayan sequence, Dhaulagiri Himal: implications for the structural framework of central Nepal
Jan 01, 2009; ... Abstract: In the Dhaulagiri region of central Nepal quartz-rich specimens sampled from the Greater Himalayan sequence yield well-defined quartz c-axis fabrics with a dominant top-to-the-SW sense of shear. These fabrics reflect pervasive crystal-plastic deformation extending more than 8 ...