Continental rifts evolve along two possible paths. In one, a rift successfully evolves into
seafloor spreading, leaving the rift structures buried beneath thick sedimentary and volcanic …

Abstract The East Africa-Arabia topographic swell is an anomalously high-elevation region
of~ 4000 km long (from southern Ethiopia to Jordan) and~ 1500 km wide (from Egypt to …

Hot plumes rising from Earth's deep mantle are thought to cause uplift, rifting and large
igneous province (LIP) emplacement. LIP volcanism in continents often spans tens of Ma …

Past large igneous province (LIP) emplacement is commonly associated with mantle plume
upwelling and led to major carbon emissions. One of Earth's largest past environmental …

Continental microplates are enigmatic plate boundary features, which can occur in
extensional and compressional regimes. Here we focus on microplate formation and their …

The Victoria microplate between the Eastern and Western Branches of the East African Rift
System is one of the largest continental microplates on Earth. In striking contrast to its …

The present-day tectonic setting of the Western Mediterranean region, from the Pyrénées to
the Betics and from the Alps to the Atlas, results from a complex 3-D geodynamic evolution …

Although many different mechanisms for subduction initiation have been proposed, only few
of them are viable in terms of consistency with observations and reproducibility in numerical …

Controversy between advocates of 'active'(plume-activated) versus 'passive'(driven by
external tectonic stresses) modes of continental rifting and break-up has persisted for …

Physical-chemical controls of continental magmatism evolution remain enigmatic. Of prime
and controversial nature is the temporal transition from calc-alkaline magmas to alkali …