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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract The Appalachian‐Caledonian orogen was built during the Paleozoic by accretion of peri‐Gondwanan terranes onto Laurentia, culminating in the formation of Pangea. During the Mesozoic, Pangea broke apart, displacing one section of the belt to eastern North America and another to northwestern Europe.
Roberto Masis +4 more
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Siberian flood basalt magmatism and Mongolia-Okhotsk slab dehydration [PDF]
, 2008 Experimental data combined with numerical calculations suggest that fast subducting slabs are cold enough to carry into the deep mantle a significant portion of the water in antigorite, which transforms with increasing depth to phase A and then to phase ...
Alexei V. Ivanov, Konstantin D. Litasov
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African cratonic lithosphere carved by mantle plumes. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2020 Celli NL +3 more
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Mantle Transition Zone Topography in New Zealand From Teleseismic P $P$‐Wave Receiver Functions
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract The geology of New Zealand has been shaped by tectonic plate interactions driven by mantle convection over the past 60 million years, but the effects of these interactions on the transition to the lower mantle are not yet well understood. We analyze 10 years of teleseismic P $P$‐wave receiver functions using common conversion point stacking to
Quan Zhang +4 more
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Origin and thermal evolution of Mars [PDF]
The thermal evolution of Mars is governed by subsolidus mantle convection beneath a thick lithosphere. Models of the interior evolution are developed by parameterizing mantle convective heat transport in terms of mantle viscosity, the superadiabatic ...
Drake, M. J. +4 more
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Deep mantle downwellings are typically located away from the two Large Low‐Velocity Provinces (LLVPs) in Earth's mantle. Geodynamic models based on global seismic tomography generally predict that convective flow at the core‐mantle boundary spreads laterally away from downwelling regions and toward LLVPs.
Jonathan Wolf
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Evolution of midplate hotspot swells: Numerical solutions [PDF]
The evolution of midplate hotspot swells on an oceanic plate moving over a hot, upwelling mantle plume is numerically simulated. The plume supplies a Gaussian-shaped thermal perturbation and thermally-induced dynamic support.
Chase, Clement G., Liu, Mian
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Origin of the Bulge Topography Within Caloris Basin, Mercury
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Caloris basin on Mercury has a massive circular bulge topography imprinted with unique fault sets. A variety of deformational processes have been proposed to have influenced their formation, including both global contraction and basin evolution, as well as the deposition and weight of the volcanic infill.
G. Schmidt +6 more
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The Impact of Orogenic Inheritance on Rifted Margin Formation
Tectonics, Volume 45, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Many rifted margins form within pre‐existing orogenic belts, emphasizing the significance of structural, thermal, and compositional inheritance in shaping rift dynamics. However, a key unresolved question is how these different types of orogenic inheritance individually influence rift evolution.
Kai Li +4 more
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A Synoptic View of Mantle Plume Shapes Enabled by Virtual Reality
Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsThe shapes of mantle plumes are sensitive to mantle viscosity, density structure, and flow patterns. Increasingly, global tomographic models reveal broad plume conduits in the lower mantle and highly tilting conduits in the mid and upper mantle. Previous
Qianyi Lu, Maxwell L. Rudolph
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