Structural geology articles from across Nature Portfolio

Crustal flow, exhumation and fault reactivation may hinder river incision and help preserve orogenic plateaus, according to a combination of thermochronology and numerical modelling applied to the Yarlung River in the southern Tibetan plateau

On the Moon, evidence has been found for the preexisting fault reactivation origin (tectonic inversion) of contractional wrinkle ridges in mare basins and the consequent structural control of volcanic eruptions in compressional tectonic settings.

Continental underthrusting, delamination rollback and lateral crustal extrusion drive the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision zone, according to a kinematic model which maps the 3-dimensional plastic strain below the Tibetan Plateau using geodetic data.

The product of slope and precipitation, along with hillslope aspects, are the main physical factors responsible for landslides in the easternmost Himalayas, according to an interpretable superposable neural network model.