[HTML][HTML] Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand

SHA van de Lagemaat, PJJ Kamp, LM Boschman… - Earth-Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Following hundreds of millions of years of subduction in all circum-Pacific margins, the
Pacific Plate started to share a mid-ocean ridge connection with continental Antarctica …

The volcanic, magmatic and tectonic setting of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, reviewed from a geothermal perspective

CJN Wilson, JV Rowland - Geothermics, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) in the North Island of New Zealand is one of the
world's most spectacular and productive areas of Quaternary silicic volcanism and …

Subducting volcaniclastic-rich upper crust supplies fluids for shallow megathrust and slow slip

AC Gase, NL Bangs, DM Saffer, S Han, PK Miller… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Recurring slow slip along near-trench megathrust faults occurs at many subduction zones,
but for unknown reasons, this process is not universal. Fluid overpressures are implicated in …

High abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading Alcanivorax in plumes of hydrothermally active volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean

B Dede, T Priest, W Bach, M Walter, R Amann… - The ISME …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Species within the genus Alcanivorax are well known hydrocarbon-degraders that
propagate quickly in oil spills and natural oil seepage. They are also inhabitants of the deep …

Early evolution of a young back-arc basin in the Havre Trough

F Caratori Tontini, D Bassett, CEJ de Ronde… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Back-arc basins are found at convergent plate boundaries. Nevertheless, they are zones of
significant crustal extension that show volcanic and hydrothermal processes somewhat …

Late Cretaceous oceanic plate reorganization and the breakup of Zealandia and Gondwana

N Mortimer, P van den Bogaard, K Hoernle, C Timm… - Gondwana …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract New 40 Ar/39 Ar ages of igneous rocks clarify the nature, timing and rates of
movement of the oceanic Pacific, Phoenix, Farallon and Hikurangi plates against Gondwana …

Seismic structure of the Caroline Plateau‐Yap trench collision zone

J Fan, H Zheng, D Zhao, D Dong, Y Bai… - Geophysical …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Collision of oceanic plateaus with trenches has played a key role in the continental growth
and plate tectonic reorganizations throughout the Earth's history. However, the …

The origin of magmas and metals at the submarine Brothers volcano, Kermadec arc, New Zealand

PA Brandl, M Portnyagin, H Zeppenfeld… - Economic …, 2023‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 376 cored the
submarine Brothers volcano of the Kermadec arc to provide insights into the third dimension …

How much did the Colombian Andes rise by the collision of the Caribbean oceanic plateau?

S León, G Monsalve… - Geophysical Research …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The quantification of topographic growth at convergent margins is of primary importance to
assessing the linkages between tectonic processes and landscape evolution. Traditionally …