Integration of regional stratigraphic relationships with data on sediment accumulation,
provenance, paleodrainage, and deformation timing enables a reconstruction of Mesozoic …

The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

Construction of the Andes has been governed largely by fluctuating contractional, neutral,
and extensional tectonic regimes during differing degrees of mechanical coupling along the …

A global set of present plate boundaries on the Earth is presented in digital form. Most come
from sources in the literature. A few boundaries are newly interpreted from topography …

Examination of an extensive adakite geochemical database identifies two distinct
compositional groups. One consists of high-SiO2 adakites (HSA) which is considered to …

The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB) is a 1000km long Neogene continental arc
showing a large variation in composition and volcanic style, and an intra-arc extensional …

The transport of water from subducting crust into the mantle is mainly dictated by the stability
of hydrous minerals in subduction zones. The thermal structure of subduction zones is a key …

Accretionary orogens form at intraoceanic and continental margin convergent plate
boundaries. They include the supra-subduction zone forearc, magmatic arc and back-arc …

The Altaids is one of the largest accretionary orogenic collages in the world with the highest
rate of Phanerozoic continental growth and significant metallogenic importance. It is widely …

During the subhorizontal (flat) subduction of an ocean–lithosphere plate, the overlying
continental plate is deformed far inland of the plate boundary. In addition, arc magmatism …