Integrating structural, paleomagnetic, and thermo/geochronologic studies to understand evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts, northern Utah to Wyoming

WA Yonkee, AB Weil, ML Wells - Journal of Structural Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Quantifying the kinematic evolution of an orogenic system, recorded in its 3-D displacement
field, across a range of spatial and temporal scales is challenging, yet crucial for quantifying …

[PDF][PDF] Subduction polarity in ancient arcs: A call to integrate geology and geophysics to decipher the Mesozoic tectonic history of the Northern Cordillera of North …

TL Pavlis, JM Amato, JM Trop, KD Ridgway… - GSA …, 2019 - researchgate.net
INTERPRETATION OF DEEP MANTLE TOMOGRAPHIC ANOMALIES AND PLATE
RECONSTRUCTION This topic is a key part of the story, and we devoted several pages to …

Numerical models of Farallon plate subduction: Creating and removing a flat slab

CA Currie, P Copeland - Geosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Flat-slab subduction has affected parts of North America, South America, and Asia over the
past 250 my In these areas, reconstructions show that the subducting plate became …

Spatio-temporal shifts in magmatism and mineralization in northern Colorado beginning in the late Eocene

JM Rosera, SP Gaynor… - Economic Geology, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Magmatism in northern Colorado beginning in the late Eocene is associated with the
formation of Pb-Zn-Ag carbonate-replacement and polymetallic vein deposits, the onset of …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

Native metals and alloys in trachytes and shoshonite from the continental United States and high-K dacite from the Bolivian Andes: Magmatic origins of ore metals in …

P Kepezhinskas, N Berdnikov, N Konovalova… - Russian Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Nb-rich trachytes from Virginia, shoshonite from Colorado and high-K dacite from the
Bolivian Andes contain diverse suites of native metals and alloys. Virginia trachytes are …

Cratonic lithosphere discontinuities: dynamics of small‐volume melting, metacratonization, and a possible role for brines

S Aulbach - Lithospheric Discontinuities, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cratons represent modern Earth's thickest, coldest, and most depleted lithospheres.
Reintroduction of volatiles led to gradual reoxidation and refertilization of initially highly …

Lateral velocity gradients in the African lower mantle inferred from slowness space observations of multipathing

J Ward, A Nowacki, S Rost - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Large low‐velocity provinces (LLVPs) are hypothesized to be purely thermal features or
possess some chemical heterogeneity but which exactly remains ambiguous. Regional …

Influence of Farallon slab loading on intraplate stress and seismicity in eastern North America in the presence of pre‐existing weak zones

E Hightower, M Gurnis, W Mao - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the stability of the continental interior, eastern North America has hosted many
significant historical earthquakes. Seismicity concentrates within tectonically inherited …

Rapid Cenozoic subsidence in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from Hess rise conjugate subduction

H Wang, M Gurnis, J Skogseid - Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Enigmatic surface deflections occurred in North America starting from the Cretaceous,
including the continental‐scale drainage reorganization and the long‐wavelength …