Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic

S Zahirovic, KJ Matthews, N Flament, RD Müller… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The breakup of Pangea in the Jurassic saw the opening of major ocean basins at the
expense of older Tethyan and Pacific oceanic plates. Although the Tethyan seafloor …

GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time

RD Müller, J Cannon, X Qin, RJ Watson… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
GPlates is an open‐source, cross‐platform plate tectonic geographic information system,
enabling the interactive manipulation of plate‐tectonic reconstructions and the visualization …

Topographic expressions of mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

C Faccenna, TW Becker - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The surface of the Earth is the ever-changing expression of the dynamic processes
occurring at depth and at or above its surface. However, our ability to “read” landscapes in …

Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

KJ Matthews, KT Maloney, S Zahirovic… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Many aspects of deep-time Earth System models, including mantle convection,
paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography and the deep Earth carbon cycle, require high …

[HTML][HTML] Stagnant lids and mantle overturns: Implications for Archaean tectonics, magmagenesis, crustal growth, mantle evolution, and the start of plate tectonics

JH Bédard - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
The lower plate is the dominant agent in modern convergent margins characterized by
active subduction, as negatively buoyant oceanic lithosphere sinks into the asthenosphere …

Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale

T Salles, L Husson, P Rey, C Mallard, S Zahirovic… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Our capability to reconstruct past landscapes and the processes that shape them underpins
our understanding of paleo-Earth. We take advantage of a global-scale landscape evolution …

The upper mantle beneath the South Atlantic Ocean, South America and Africa from waveform tomography with massive data sets

NL Celli, S Lebedev, AJ Schaeffer… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a tomographic model of the crust, upper mantle and transition zone beneath the
South Atlantic, South America and Africa. Taking advantage of the recent growth in …

Andean tectonics and mantle dynamics as a pervasive influence on Amazonian ecosystem

TC Bicudo, V Sacek, RP de Almeida, JM Bates… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The Amazonian landscape evolution is the result of the combined effect of Andean
tectonism, climate and the Earth's interior dynamics. To reconstruct the landscape evolution …

Initiation of the Andean orogeny by lower mantle subduction

C Faccenna, O Oncken, AF Holt, TW Becker - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cordillera of the Andes is a double-vergent orogenic belt built up by thickening
of South American plate crust. Several models provide plausible explanations for the …

A mantle convection perspective on global tectonics

N Coltice, M Gérault, M Ulvrová - Earth-science reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The concept of interplay between mantle convection and tectonics goes back to about a
century ago, with the proposal that convection currents in the Earth's mantle drive …