Effects of inherited structures on inversion tectonics: Examples from the Asturian Basin (NW Iberian Peninsula) interpreted in a Computer Assisted Virtual Environment (CAVE) [PDF]
, 2018 We would like to acknowledge financial support by the research project CGL2015–66997-R: “Aplicación del análisis del plegamiento a la investigación de recursos geológicos” (AAPLIREGE) funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness and the
Bulnes Cudeiro, María Teresa +3 more
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Inevitability of Plate Tectonics on Super-Earths [PDF]
, 2007 The recent discovery of super-Earths (masses less or equal to 10 earth-masses) has initiated a discussion about conditions for habitable worlds. Among these is the mode of convection, which influences a planet's thermal evolution and surface conditions ...
O'Connell, Richard J. +2 more
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The Ability of Significant Tidal Stress to Initiate Plate Tectonics [PDF]
, 2019 Plate tectonics is a geophysical process currently unique to Earth, has an important role in regulating the Earth's climate, and may be better understood by identifying rocky planets outside our solar system with tectonic activity.
Triaud, Amaury H. M. J., Zanazzi, J. J.
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Icarus, 2017 New Horizons images of Pluto's companion Charon show a variety of terrains that display extensional tectonic features, with relief surprising for this relatively small world. These features suggest a global extensional areal strain of order 1% early in Charon's history.
Beyer, Ross A. +17 more
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Constraints on the active tectonics of the Friuli/NW Slovenia area from CGPS measurements and three-dimensional kinematic modeling [PDF]
, 2009 We use site velocities from continuous GPS (CGPS) observations and kinematic modeling to investigate the active tectonics of the Friuli/NW Slovenia area.
Battaglia, Maurizio +3 more
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Plate tectonics: When ancient continents collide [PDF]
, 2017 The geological record preserves scant evidence for early plate tectonics. Analysis of eclogites — metamorphic rocks formed in subduction zones — in the Trans-Hudson mountain belt suggests modern-style subduction may have operated 1,800 million years ...
Clare Warren +4 more
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From source to sink in central Gondwana: Exhumation of the Precambrian basement rocks of Tanzania and sediment accumulation in the adjacent Congo basin [PDF]
, 2016 Apatite fission track (AFT) and (U-Th)/He (AHe) thermochronometry data are reported and used to unravel the exhumation history of crystalline basement rocks from the elevated (>1000 m above sea level) but low-relief Tanzanian Craton.
Brown, Roderick +5 more
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Accretionary Tectonics of the North American Cordillera [PDF]
, 1983 Continental geology stands on the threshold of a change that is likely to be as fundamental as plate-tectonic theory was for marine geology. Ongoing seismic-reflection investigations into the deep crustal structure of North America are verifying that ...
Saleeby, Jason B.
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Emplacement of sandstone intrusions during contractional tectonics [PDF]
, 2016 Acknowledgments We acknowledge the support of sponsoring companies of Phase 3 of the Sand Injection Research Group (SIRG). We are very grateful to John Waldron and Jessica Ross for the constructive reviews of the manuscript.
Alsop, G. Ian +4 more
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