Magmatic faults: Challenges, progress, and possibilities

PH Alasino, KE Ardill, SR Paterson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
It is increasingly recognized that plutons are rich in magmatic structures that provide
powerful tools for unraveling hypersolidus histories. However, one group of structures …

The rise and fall of continental arcs: Interplays between magmatism, uplift, weathering, and climate

CTA Lee, S Thurner, S Paterson, W Cao - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Continental arcs, such as the modern Andes or the Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith, are
some of the highest topographic features on Earth. Continental arc volcanoes may produce …

Resolving the crustal composition paradox by 3.8 billion years of slab failure magmatism and collisional recycling of continental crust

RS Hildebrand, JB Whalen, SA Bowring - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
In the standard paradigm, continental crust is formed mainly by arc magmatism, but because
the compositions of magma rising from the mantle are basaltic and continental crust is …

Temporal histories of Cordilleran continental arcs: Testing models for magmatic episodicity

M Kirsch, SR Paterson, F Wobbe, AMM Ardila… - American …, 2016 - degruyter.com
Magmatic activity in continental arcs is known to vary in a non-steady-state manner, with the
mechanisms driving magmatic activity being a matter of ongoing discussion. Of particular …

Arc and slab-failure magmatism in Cordilleran batholiths II–The Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern and Baja California

RS Hildebrand, JB Whalen - Geoscience Canada, 2014 - erudit.org
Ever since the late 1960s when Warren Hamilton proposed that the great Cordilleran
batholiths of the western Americas are the roots of volcanic arcs like the Andes and were …

Tracking paleodeformation fields in the Mesozoic central Sierra Nevada arc: Implications for intra-arc cyclic deformation and arc tempos

W Cao, S Paterson, V Memeti, R Mundil… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this study, structures in plutons and host rocks are coupled with geochronology to track
paleodeformation fields from the late Paleozoic to Late Cretaceous in the central Sierra …

Spatiotemporally heterogeneous deformation, indirect tectonomagmatic links, and lithospheric evolution during orogenic activity coeval with an arc flare-up

S Attia, SR Paterson, D Jiang, RB Miller - Geosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Broad overlap between deformation and magmatism in active margins has spurred the
development of a conceptual framework of direct tectonomagmatic links in both active and …

[LIBRO][B] Mesozoic assembly of the North American cordillera

RS Hildebrand - 2013 - books.google.com
" In this well-illustrated book, Hildebrand expands upon his model for the development of the
North American Cordillera detailed in Special paper 457. Starting with an overview of …

Intrusion of granitic magma into the continental crust facilitated by magma pulsing and dike‐diapir interactions: Numerical simulations

W Cao, BJP Kaus, S Paterson - Tectonics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted a 2‐D thermomechanical modeling study of intrusion of granitic magma into
the continental crust to explore the roles of multiple pulsing and dike‐diapir interactions in …

[HTML][HTML] Geochronology of the Wrangell Arc: Spatial-temporal evolution of slab-edge magmatism along a flat-slab, subduction-transform transition, Alaska-Yukon

JM Trop, JA Benowitz, CS Kirby… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Wrangell Arc in Alaska (USA) and adjacent volcanic fields in the Yukon provide
a long-term record of interrelations between flat-slab subduction of the Yakutat microplate …