Chapter 8 **Evolution of Drainage in Response to Brittle - Ductile Dynamics and Surface Processes in Kachchh Rift Basin, Western India 131**

Preface

This book is devoted to different aspects of tectonic researches. New results and interpreta‐ tions are presented here for diverse tectonic settings. Most of the chapters include up-to-date materials of detailed geological investigations, often combined with geophysical data, which can help understand more clearly the essence of mechanisms of different tectonic processes. One half of the chapters are devoted to the evolution of tectonic processes of different re‐ gions. The chapter of M. Kanao and V.D. Suvorov "Seismological Implication to the Tectonic Evolution of the Lützow-Holm Bay Region, East Antarctica" dedicates to the problem for‐ mation of lithospheric mantle anisotropy considered with upwelling of the mantle plume associated with Gondwana breakup using teleseismic events that demonstrated heterogene‐ ous structure in the studied region. A close examination of the problems is discussed in the chapter by G. Arzadún et al. "Tectonic Insight in the Southwest Gondwana Boundary Based on Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility," however, from another position. Problems of tec‐ tonic locality of Bureja-Jziamusy superterrane (Mongol-Okhotsk orogenic belt) in the late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Era are covered in the chapter of I. Derbeko and tectonics and metallog‐

The second half of the chapters have to deal with different aspects of tectonic events. The chapter of Mingliang Liang represents a discussion on the influence of the detachment struc‐ tural deformation on pore structure evolution in shale on the western of the Xuefeng Moun‐ tain, South China. Girish Ch Kothyari with his coauthors dealt with the problem of evolution of drainage in response to brittle-ductile dynamics and surface processes in Kachchh Rift Ba‐ sin, Western India, and shows that the faults there are well connected at a deeper level and generated negative flower structures, significantly controlling the surface fluvial dynamics. According to Bizhu He et al., soft sediment deformation structures, triggered by the modern earthquakes observed in China, are the very likely response to the high-frequent tectonic events during the main tectonic movements. Prof. Yasuto Itoh covered the problem of the post-opening deformation history of the Japan Sea back-arc basin and shows that tectonic

Institute Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry

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Moscow, Russia

eny of East Kazakhstan in the chapter of B. Dyachkov and his colleagues.

processes on an active margin are governed by the mode of plate convergence.

Girish Ch Kothyari, Ajay P. Singh, Sneha Mishra, Raj Sunil Kandregula, Indu Chaudhary and Gaurav Chauhan
