Mr. Albery's 2000 production, thanks to Antony McDonald's sets, ingeniously shrank the Met stage to a more intimate operetta scale, thrusting figures out before the proscenium (flanked here by two large fluorescent sketches of women in early-20th-century dress), staying basically true to operetta tradition while stripping away some of its glitter.
The margin-plate basin-mountain systems, with binary units of large-scale thrust belts and foreland basins, have different deep lithospheric structures, abrupt boundaries and great contrast in today's geomorphology between the basin and the mountains.
Deep water, turbiditic metasedimentary rocks of the lower Maronan Supergroup (ca. 1.71 1.66 Ga) occupy the hanging wall of a crustal-scale thrust, the Cloncurry Overthrust, which separates them from calc-silicate and meta-evaporitic rocks of the Doherty Formation (ca. 1.74 1.72 Ga) in the footwall.
The current paradigm is that the unconformity between these two basinal sequences coincides with a crustal-scale thrust that has been called the Main Central Thrust, and that this acted as the fundamental structure that controlled the architecture of the Himalayan Metamorphic Front.
The Midcontinent Rift developed contemporaneously with northwest-directed crustal-scale thrusting in the Grenville orogenic belt.
This resulted in crustal-scale thrusts of opposite vergence that partitioned upper crustal and lower crustal deformation.
Our optimal geodetic coseismic model shows that coseismic rupture did not only occur with dominantly dextral strike-slip motions on shallow crustal faults but also at the Hikurangi subduction interface characterized by small-scale thrusting motions.
How tempting it is to follow Blake's reading of Milton, or, more recently, John Carey's black-edged take on Dickens, and to contend that Tolkien was, contrary to his own wishes, a pallid advocate of goodness but an inspired and intricate summoner of evil: A huge arm and shoulder, with a dark skin of greenish scales, was thrust through the widening gap.
Detailed mapping of key horizons identified on the high-resolution seismic profiles has led to the recognition of a series of buried palaeo-landsystems which are characterised by a range of features including; glacial, glacifluvial and fluvial channels, a large-scale glacitectonic thrust-moraine complex with intervening ice-marginal basins, a lacustrine basin and marine ravinement surfaces.
The overall uplift of the Mera plateau and the Eastern Cordillera is likely to have been caused by a regional-scale low angle thrust ramp emerging as the frontal thrust fault.
The invasion of Quebec ended as a disaster for the Americans, but Arnold's actions on the retreat from Quebec and his improvised navy on Lake Champlain were widely credited with delaying a full-scale British counter thrust until 1777.
