The existence of mantle plumes was first proposed in the 1970s to explain intra-plate,
hotspot volcanism, yet owing to difficulties in resolving mantle upwellings with geophysical …

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 …

Global deep‐time plate motion models have traditionally followed a classical rigid plate
approach, even though plate deformation is known to be significant. Here we present a …

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 …

We have devised a new absolute Late Jurassic‐Cretaceous Pacific plate model using a
fixed hot spot approach coupled with paleomagnetic data from Pacific large igneous …

Due to its position between the highly distinct Oriental and Australasian biogeographical
realms, much effort has been spent demarcating associated separations and transitions in …

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 …

The recent tectonic evolution of the western Mediterranean region is enigmatic. The causes
for the closure of the Moroccan marine gateway prior to the Messinian salinity crisis, for the …

Mediterranean tectonics since the Lower Cretaceous has been characterized by a
multiphase subduction and collision history with temporally and spatially variable, small …

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 …