Linking slab break-off, Hellenic trench retreat, and uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus

TF Schildgen, C Yıldırım, D Cosentino… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus are integral parts of the world's third
largest orogenic plateau. In the past decade, geophysical surveys have provided insights …

The ups and downs of North America: Evaluating the role of mantle dynamic topography since the Mesozoic

L Liu - Reviews of Geophysics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The driving force for transient vertical motions of Earth's surface remains an outstanding
question. A main difficulty lies in the uncertain role of the underlying mantle, especially …

Mesoproterozoic-trans-Laurentian magmatism: A synthesis of continent-wide age distributions, new SIMS U–Pb ages, zircon saturation temperatures, and Hf and Nd …

ME Bickford, WR Van Schmus, KE Karlstrom… - Precambrian …, 2015 - Elsevier
The origin and tectonic setting of the Mesoproterozoic (1.50–1.34 Ga) granite–rhyolite
Provinces of the midcontinent region of the United States, and the coeval A-type granite …

A 3‐D model of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Central and Western US by joint inversion of receiver functions and surface wave dispersion

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps from ambient noise and earthquake data are inverted
jointly with receiver functions observed at 828 stations from the USArray Transportable Array …

[PDF][PDF] Miocene rejuvenation of topographic relief in the southern Appalachians

SF Gallen, KW Wegmann, DR Bohnenstiehl - GSA Today, 2013 - researchgate.net
Conventional wisdom holds that the southern Appalachian Mountains have not experienced
a significant phase of tectonic forcing for> 200 myr; yet, they share many characteristics with …

Quaternary fluvial archives and landscape evolution: a global synthesis

DR Bridgland, R Westaway - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Late Cenozoic (and especially Quaternary) fluvial deposits and related landforms
provide valuable information about landscape evolution, not just in terms of changing …

Distinct crustal isostasy trends east and west of the Rocky Mountain Front

B Schmandt, FC Lin… - Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic structure beneath the contiguous US was imaged with multimode receiver function
stacking and inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion and ellipticity measurements. Crust …

3‐D multiobservable probabilistic inversion for the compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere and upper mantle: III. Thermochemical tomography in the …

JC Afonso, N Rawlinson, Y Yang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We apply a novel 3‐D multiobservable probabilistic tomography method that we have
recently developed and benchmarked, to directly image the thermochemical structure of the …

[PDF][PDF] New insights into debris-flow hazards from an extraordinary event in the Colorado Front Range

JA Coe, JW Kean, JW Godt, RL Baum, ES Jones… - GSA …, 2014 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT Rainfall on 9–13 September 2013 triggered at least 1,138 debris flows in a
3430 km2 area of the Colorado Front Range. The historical record reveals that the …

Diachronous episodes of Cenozoic erosion in southwestern North America and their relationship to surface uplift, paleoclimate, paleodrainage, and paleoaltimetry

SM Cather, CE Chapin, SA Kelley - Geosphere, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The history of erosion of southwestern North America and its relationship to surface uplift is a
long-standing topic of debate. We use geologic and thermochronometric data to reconstruct …