Evolution, modification, and deformation of continental lithosphere: Insights from the eastern margin of north America

MD Long - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Continental lithosphere is deformed, destroyed, or otherwise modified in several ways.
Processes that modify the lithosphere include subduction, terrane accretion, orogenesis …

Auckland Volcanic Field magmatism, volcanism, and hazard: a review

JL Hopkins, ER Smid, JD Eccles, JL Hayes… - New Zealand Journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF) is a basaltic intraplate volcanic field in North
Island, New Zealand, upon which> 1.6 million people live. Seismic velocity tomography and …

Distribution and processing of highly siderophile elements in cratonic mantle lithosphere

S Aulbach, JE Mungall… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cratonic lithospheric mantle is composed of predominantly refractory materials that formed
at higher mantle potential temperatures (TP) than recorded in non-cratonic peridotites. It also …

Crustal structure of active deformation zones in Africa: Implications for global crustal processes

CJ Ebinger, D Keir, ID Bastow, K Whaler… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cenozoic East African rift (EAR), Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL), and Atlas
Mountains formed on the slow‐moving African continent, which last experienced orogeny …

Perturbation of the carbon cycle during the late Pliensbachian–early Toarcian: New insight from high-resolution carbon isotope records in Morocco

S Bodin, FN Krencker, T Kothe, R Hoffmann… - Journal of African Earth …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Preceding the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event by∼ 1 Myr, the Pliensbachian–
Toarcian boundary event is in many aspects as severe and disturbing for the environment as …

Origins of cratonic mantle discontinuities: A view from petrology, geochemistry and thermodynamic models

S Aulbach, M Massuyeau, F Gaillard - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Geophysically detectible mid-lithospheric discontinuities (MLD) and lithosphere-
asthenosphere boundaries (LAB) beneath cratons have received much attention over recent …

Numerical models of the magmatic processes induced by slab breakoff

R Freeburn, P Bouilhol, B Maunder, V Magni… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
After the onset of continental collision, magmatism often persists for tens of millions of years,
albeit with a different composition, in reduced volumes, and with a more episodic nature and …

Linking intraplate volcanism to lithospheric structure and asthenospheric flow

T Duvernay, DR Davies, CR Mathews… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Several of Earth's intraplate volcanic provinces are hard to reconcile with the mantle plume
hypothesis. Instead, they exhibit characteristics that are more compatible with shallower …