Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

During evolution of the South Sandwich subduction zone, which has consumed South
American Plate oceanic lithosphere, somehow continental crust of both the South American …

We present a new global model of plate motions and strain rates in plate boundary zones
constrained by horizontal geodetic velocities. This Global Strain Rate Model (GSRM v. 2.1) …

We describe best-fitting angular velocities and MORVEL, a new closure-enforced set of
angular velocities for the geologically current motions of 25 tectonic plates that collectively …

The Andes make up the largest orogenic system developed by subduction of oceanic crust
along a continental margin. Subduction began soon after the breakup of Rodinia in Late …

Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Galápagos Rift in 1977,
numerous vent sites and endemic faunal assemblages have been found along mid-ocean …

The Scotia arc is the eastward-closing loop of mountains and locally emergent submarine
ridges extending from the southernmost Andes through the active South Sandwich volcanic …

A minimum-complexity tectonic reconstruction, based on published and new basin opening
models, depicts how the Scotia Sea grew by Cenozoic plate divergence, dismembering a …

Since the advent of plate tectonics different global reference frames have been used to
describe the motion of plates and trenches. The difference in plate motion and trench …

Chile is frequently affected by large and potentially tsunamigenic and damaging
earthquakes as a result of rapid convergence of the Nazca plate beneath the South America …