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 …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Defining the structural style of fold–thrust belts and understanding the controlling factors are
necessary steps towards prediction of their long-term and short-term dynamics, including …

In continental-margin subduction zones, basalt magmas spawned in the mantle interact with
the crust to produce a broad spectrum of volcanic arc associations. A distinct style of very …

Low‐angle subduction of the Farallon oceanic plate during the Late Cretaceous–early
Eocene is generally considered as the main driver forming the high Rocky Mountains in …

Dynamic topography is commonly understood to be deflection of the Earth's surface that
results from convection of the mantle. Because different authors use the words “dynamic …

Flat-slab subduction occurs when the descending plate becomes horizontal at some depth
before resuming its descent into the mantle. It is often proposed as a mechanism for the …

Timing and distribution of magmatism, deformation, exhumation, and basin development
have been used to reconstruct the history of Laramide flat‐slab subduction under North …

Growing evidence supports that the widely developed Mesozoic folds and magmatism in the
South China Block are attributed to the flat‐slab subduction, followed by slab steepening, of …

Dynamic topography of Earth's surface occurs in response to hydrodynamic stresses due to
mantle flow beneath a flexible lithosphere. Here, we compare the predicted dynamic …