Formation of Fe-Mn crusts within a continental margin environment

T Conrad, JR Hein, A Paytan, DA Clague - Ore Geology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract This study examines Fe-Mn crusts that form on seamounts along the California
continental-margin (CCM), within the United States 200 nautical mile exclusive economic …

The cretaceous and cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia

S Zahirovic, M Seton, RD Müller - Solid earth, 2014 - se.copernicus.org
Tectonic reconstructions of Southeast Asia have given rise to numerous controversies that
include the accretionary history of Sundaland and the enigmatic tectonic origin of the proto …

Illuminating the lack of consensus among descriptions of earth history data in the North American deserts: a resource for biologists

JS Wilson, JP Pitts - Progress in Physical Geography, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding the timing of mountain building and desert formation events in western North
America is crucial to understanding the evolutionary history of the diverse arid-adapted biota …

An animated tectonic reconstruction of southwestern North America since 36 Ma

N McQuarrie, BP Wernicke - Geosphere, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present tectonic reconstructions and an accompanying animation of deformation across
the North America–Pacific plate boundary since 36 Ma. Intraplate deformation of …

Unroofing, incision, and uplift history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

RM Flowers, BP Wernicke… - Geological Society of …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The source of buoyancy for the uplift of cratonic plateaus is a fundamental question in
continental dynamics. The~ 1.9 km uplift of the Colorado Plateau since the Late Cretaceous …

Ridge-trench interactions and the Neogene tectonic evolution of the Magdalena shelf and southern Gulf of California: Insights from detrital zircon U-Pb ages from the …

JM Fletcher, M Grove, D Kimbrough… - Geological …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Magdalena fan is an apparently beheaded submarine depocenter that has figured
prominently in reconstructions of middle to late Miocene Pacific–North American plate …

Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

KW Huntington, BP Wernicke, JM Eiler - Tectonics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The elevation history of Earth's surface is key to understanding the geodynamic processes
responsible for the rise of plateaus. We investigate the timing of Colorado Plateau uplift by …

Evolution of stress and fault patterns in oblique rift systems: 3‐D numerical lithospheric‐scale experiments from rift to breakup

S Brune - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rifting involves complex normal faulting that is controlled by extension direction, reactivation
of prerift structures, sedimentation, and dyke dynamics. The relative impact of these factors …

Chronology of Miocene–Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, southern California: A record of regional tectonics and Colorado River evolution

RJ Dorsey, A Fluette, K McDougall, BA Housen… - …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Late Miocene to early Pliocene deposits at Split Mountain Gorge, California,
preserve a record of basinal response to changes in regional tectonics, paleogeography …

Lithospheric thinning beneath rifted regions of Southern California

V Lekic, SW French, KM Fischer - Science, 2011 - science.org
The stretching and break-up of tectonic plates by rifting control the evolution of continents
and oceans, but the processes by which lithosphere deforms and accommodates strain …