Origin of postcollisional magmas and formation of porphyry Cu deposits in southern Tibet

R Wang, RF Weinberg, WJ Collins, JP Richards… - Earth-Science …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The recent discovery of large porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) associated with Miocene (22–
12 Ma) granitoid magmas in the eastern section of the Paleocene-Eocene Gangdese …

Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

PG DeCelles, MN Ducea, P Kapp, G Zandt - Nature Geoscience, 2009‏ - nature.com
Cordilleran orogenic systems, such as the modern Andes, are long belts of deformation and
magmatism that are associated with the subduction of oceanic plates beneath continental …

The thermal structure of subduction zone back arcs

CA Currie, RD Hyndman - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
It is well recognized that active arc volcanism at nearly all subduction zones requires
temperatures greater than 1200° C in the subarc mantle, despite the underthrusting cool …

Development and applications of double-difference seismic tomography

H Zhang, C Thurber - pure and applied geophysics, 2006‏ - Springer
Double-difference (DD) tomography is a generalization of DD location; it simultaneously
solves for the three-dimensional velocity structure and seismic event locations. DD …

Imaging the transition from Aleutian subduction to Yakutat collision in central Alaska, with local earthquakes and active source data

D Eberhart‐Phillips, DH Christensen… - Journal of …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
In southern and central Alaska the subduction and active volcanism of the Aleutian
subduction zone give way to a broad plate boundary zone with mountain building and strike …

LOTOS code for local earthquake tomographic inversion: Benchmarks for testing tomographic algorithms

I Koulakov - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2009‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present the LOTOS-07 code for performing local earthquake tomographic inversion,
which is freely available (see the Data and Resources section for the Web site). The initial …

Tectonic evolution of the Central Andean plateau and implications for the growth of plateaus

CN Garzione, N McQuarrie, ND Perez… - Annual Review of …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Current end-member models for the geodynamic evolution of orogenic plateaus predict (a)
slow and steady rise during crustal shortening and ablative subduction (ie, continuous …

Three‐dimensional density model of the Nazca plate and the Andean continental margin

A Tassara, HJ Götze, S Schmidt… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
We forward modeled the Bouguer anomaly in a region encompassing the Pacific Ocean
(85° W) and the Andean margin (60° W) between northern Peru (5° S) and Patagonia (45° …

Flat subduction dynamics and deformation of the South American plate: Insights from analog modeling

N Espurt, F Funiciello, J Martinod, B Guillaume… - …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present lithospheric‐scale analog models, investigating how the absolute plates' motion
and subduction of buoyant oceanic plateaus can affect both the kinematics and the …

Geometry and brittle deformation of the subducting Nazca Plate, Central Chile and Argentina

M Anderson, P Alvarado, G Zandt… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007‏ - academic.oup.com
We use data from the Chile Argentina Geophysical Experiment (CHARGE) broad-band
seismic deployment to refine past observations of the geometry and deformation within the …