The idea of ‘paired’ metamorphic belts may be generalized and extended extra extensively than in the unique proposition to subduction-to-collision orogenic programs in addition to accretionary orogenic programs. Eclogite-excessive-pressure granulite (E-HPG) metamorphism is predominantly a Proterozoic-Paleozoic phenomenon-complementary to but sparser than UHT metamorphism to start with, but extending further into the Paleozoic than does UHT metamorphism-that is inferred to file subduction-to-collision orogenesis. The broadly contemporaneous incidence of granulite and ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism with eclogite-high-pressure granulite metamorphism within the geological report for the reason that Neoarchean Era is proof of twin thermal environments and indicates that subduction has operated on Earth since that point. I argue that a duality of metamorphic belts-reflecting a duality of thermal environments-is the characteristic metamorphic imprint of plate tectonics in the rock file, and it seems solely because the Neoarchean Era. If backarcs have been the final setting for UHT metamorphism, then on a hotter Earth the cyclic formation of supercratons (within the Neoarchean Era) and supercontinents (in the Proterozoic Eon) required the destruction of oceans floored by thinner lithosphere that will have generated hotter backarcs than these related to the current destruction of the Pacific Ocean on the modern Earth.


Detailed study of 1 specific channel-levee system on the Niger Delta slope exhibits a interval of incision followed by three distinct phases of channel growth during its aggradational history. Many of the channel-levee methods examined in this examine are characterized by a basal erosional fairway that’s bordered by outer levees of varying thickness. They embody internal levees, outer levees, Yupoo LV erosional fairways, channel-axis deposits, rotational slumps blocks, and mass transport deposits. Channel-belts evolve within the confines of the scalloped erosional fairway partitions (flanked by outer levee), and are similar in morphology to meander-belts in fluvial systems, however generally have a greater element of vertical aggradation. In some instances, multiple phases of inner levee progress are observed, each intimately linked to the channel migration and aggradation history. Channel sinuosity evolves dynamically, with some meander loops undergoing durations of accelerated meander progress at the identical time that others show little lateral migration. Vertical, sub-vertical, and lateral stacking patterns of sinuous and/or meandering channels create seismic facies that vary from slim to extensive zones of excessive amplitude reflections (HARs) with chaotic to continuous and shingled to horizontal reflections. MITCHELL, A. Metallogenic Belts and Angle of Dip of Benioff Zones.