The causes of continental arc flare ups and drivers of episodic magmatic activity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

JB Chapman, JE Shields, MN Ducea, SR Paterson… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental arcs in Cordilleran orogenic systems display episodic changes in magma
production rate, alternating between flare ups (70–90 km 3 km− 1 Myr− 1) and lulls (< 20 km …

[HTML][HTML] Broken foreland basins and the influence of subduction dynamics, tectonic inheritance, and mechanical triggers

BK Horton, TN Capaldi, C Mackaman-Lofland… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Imaging upper mantle anisotropy with traveltime and splitting intensity observations from teleseismic shear waves: insights from tomographic reconstructions of …

BP VanderBeek, RL Bue, F Rappisi… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Teleseismic traveltime tomography remains one of the most popular methods for obtaining
images of Earth's upper mantle. However, despite extensive evidence for an elastically …

Full waveform inversion beneath the central Andes: Insight into the dehydration of the Nazca slab and delamination of the back‐arc lithosphere

Y Gao, F Tilmann, DP van Herwaarden… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new seismic tomography model for the crust and upper mantle beneath the
Central Andes based on multi‐scale full seismic waveform inversion, proceeding from long …

Adjoint waveform tomography of South America

C Ciardelli, M Assumpção, E Bozdağ… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We used 3D spectral‐element seismic wave simulations and data from 112 earthquakes
and 1,311 seismic stations, totalizing 20,884 unique ray paths, to construct an adjoint …

[HTML][HTML] A Paleoproterozoic magmatic flare-up in the Central Domain of the Ketilidian Orogen, South Greenland, and correlations to Canada and Scandinavia

R Vestergaard, T Waight, A Petersson, AM Hinchey… - Precambrian …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Domain of the Ketilidian Orogen in South Greenland preserves two
magmatic events that provide insight into crustal architecture and represent a major …

Seismic imaging of the Northern Andean subduction zone from teleseismic tomography: a torn and fragmented Nazca slab

EE Rodríguez, SL Beck, M Ruiz… - Geophysical Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Nazca-South America subduction zone in Ecuador is characterized by a
complicated along-strike geometry as the slab transitions from flat slab subduction in the …

Impact of the Juan Fernandez Ridge on the Pampean flat subduction inferred from full waveform inversion

Y Gao, X Yuan, B Heit, F Tilmann… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A new seismic model for crust and upper mantle of the south Central Andes is derived from
full waveform inversion, covering the Pampean flat subduction and adjacent Payenia steep …

Hydrous mantle plume promoted the generation of continental flood basalts in the Tarim large igneous province

Y Bi, H Chen, E Hanski, T Kuritani, HX Wu… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Recent research on the water content of large igneous provinces (LIPs) has revealed that
water has a significant impact on the formation of LIPs. However, most studies focus on the …

Between global risk reduction goals, scientific-technical capabilities and local realities: a novel modular approach for multi-risk assessment

E Schoepfer, J Lauterjung, T Riedlinger… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
We live in a rapidly changing and globalized society. The increasing connectivity of our
economic, social and technical systems, growing urbanization and the consequences of …