Controls on tectonic accretion versus erosion in subduction zones: Implications for the origin and recycling of the continental crust

P Clift, P Vannucchi - Reviews of Geophysics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Documenting the mass flux through convergent plate margins is important to the
understanding of petrogenesis in arc settings and to the origin of the continental crust, since …

Experimental modelling of orogenic wedges: A review

F Graveleau, J Malavieille, S Dominguez - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Experimental modelling applied to the study of orogenic wedge dynamics has been a
subject of fruitful research for more than 30years, although the technique dates back as far …
A Menant, S Angiboust, T Gerya, R Lacassin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Topography in forearc regions reflects tectonic processes along the subduction interface,
from seismic cycle-related transients to long-term competition between accretion and …

Origin and evolution of a splay fault in the Nankai accretionary wedge

M Strasser, GF Moore, G Kimura, Y Kitamura… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Subduction zones are often characterized by wedge-shaped sedimentary complexes—
called accretionary prisms—that form when sediments are scraped off the subducting plate …

Erosion and exhumation in accretionary orogens: Experimental and geological approaches

E Konstantinovskaia… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the role of erosion on exhumation and deformation history of
accretionary orogens through experimental and geological methods. Fault propagation …

Thrust wedges with décollement levels and syntectonic erosion: A view from analog models

E Konstantinovskaya, J Malavieille - Tectonophysics, 2011 - Elsevier
Analog sandbox models have been set up to study the impact of syntectonic erosion on
thrust wedges with one and two décollement levels. Different accretion mechanisms are …

Accretion of a rifted passive margin: The Late Paleozoic Rhenohercynian fold and thrust belt (Middle European Variscides)

O Oncken, C Von Winterfeld, U Dittmar - Tectonics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
In the western Rhenish Massif, the Rhenohercynian fold and thrust belt of the Middle
European Varsicides exposes a telescoped complete Devonian to Early Carboniferous …