Coupled influence of tectonics, climate, and surface processes on landscape evolution in southwestern North America

A Bahadori, WE Holt, R Feng, J Austermann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Cenozoic landscape evolution in southwestern North America is ascribed to crustal
isostasy, dynamic topography, or lithosphere tectonics, but their relative contributions remain …

Coexisting diverse P–T–t paths during Neoarchean Sagduction: Insights from numerical modeling and applications to the eastern North China Craton

C Yu, T Yang, J Zhang, G Zhao, PA Cawood… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Block of the North China Craton preserves a Neoarchean greenstone-
granite rock association with typical dome-and-keel structures. Metamorphic data for these …

Exhumation history of the Variscan orogen in western Iberia as inferred from new K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar data on granites from Portugal

A Hildenbrand, FO Marques, X Quidelleur, F Noronha - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Exhumation of the roots of collapsing orogens is a key process in the evolution of mountain
belts, which is critical for the understanding of orogenic cycles. From new structural …

High‐Resolution 3D Shallow S‐Wave Velocity Structure Revealed by Ambient‐Noise Double Beamforming with a Dense Array in Guangzhou Urban Area, China

C **ong, X Ye, Z Guo, L Wang… - Seismological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Shallow velocity structure surveys are very important for urban seismic hazard monitoring
and risk assessment. Ambient‐noise tomography provides an ideal way to obtain urban fine …

Deep crustal source of gneiss dome revealed by eclogite in migmatite (Montagne Noire, French Massif Central)

DL Whitney, C Hamelin, C Teyssier… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In orogens worldwide and throughout geologic time, large volumes of deep continental crust
have been exhumed in domal structures. Extension‐driven ascent of bodies of deep, hot …

The magmatic architecture of continental flood basalts: 2. A new conceptual model

T Mittal, MA Richards - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Continental flood basalts intruded and erupted millions of km3 of magma over∼ 1–5 Ma.
Previous work proposed the presence of large (–106 km3) crustal magma reservoirs to feed …

The role of gravitational body forces in the development of metamorphic core complexes

A Bahadori, WE Holt, J Austermann, L Campbell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Within extreme continental extension areas, ductile middle crust is exhumed at the surface
as metamorphic core complexes. Sophisticated quantitative models of extreme extension …

Tectonic mode switches recorded at the northern edge of the Australian Plate during the Pliocene and Pleistocene

LT White, R Hall, I Gunawan, B Kohn - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report new data from medium‐high grade metamorphic rocks found at the northern
margin of the Lengguru Fold Belt in West Papua. The study involved a systematic analysis of …

Thermo-kinematic modeling of detachment-dominated extension, northeastern Death Valley area, USA: Implications for mid-crustal thermal-rheological evolution

BM Lutz, RA Ketcham, GJ Axen, MA Beyene, ML Wells… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
The deep structure of continental detachment faults remains debated. Thermo-mechanical
models generate detachments that either transect the lithosphere or become distributed …

Controls on the thermomechanical evolution of hyperextended lithosphere at magma‐poor rifted margins: The example of Espirito Santo and the Kwanza basins

LL Lavier, PJ Ball, G Manatschal… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐quality, long offset seismic data from many distal rifted margins show evidence for
hyper‐extended,< 10‐km‐thick crust. Direct observation of such domains is challenging as …