Improvements in seismic imaging, computing capabilities, and analytical methods, as well
as a number of industry deep-water wells sampling distal offshore settings, have …

This article points out for the first time a striking correlation between the paleogeography of
Upper Triassic deposits and the mode of crustal stretching around and inside the Northern …

Rifted margins are the result of the successful process of thinning and breakup of the
continental lithosphere leading to the formation of new oceanic lithosphere. Observations on …

Slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges develop large offset normal faults, or detachments, that
exhume mantle-derived peridotites to the seafloor. Successive detachments that flip polarity …

C′ shear bands are ubiquitous structures in shear zones but their development is poorly
understood. Previous research has determined they mostly occur in rocks with a high …

Semi‐brittle flow occurs when crystal plasticity and cataclastic mechanisms operate
concurrently and may be common at mid‐levels of the Earth's crust. Using a Paterson gas …

Detachment faults that exhume mantle peridotites to the seafloor play a major role in the
accommodation of plate divergence at slow‐spreading ridges. Using 99 samples of partially …

Although the Wilson cycle is usually considered in terms of wide oceans floored with normal
oceanic crust, numerous orogens result from the closure of embryonic oceans. We discuss …

Geological observations show that fault zone composition varies and often accommodates a
mixture of brittle and ductile deformation. There is growing evidence that the nature of this …

The brittle‐ductile rheological behavior in subduction zones is commonly proposed to
explain deep transient slips. Generally observed at large scales in tectonic “mélanges”, here …