Crustal anatomy and evolution of a subduction-related orogenic system: Insights from the Southern Central Andes (22-35 S)

L Giambiagi, A Tassara, A Echaurren, J Julve… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the archetype of mountain building in subduction zones, the Central Andes has
constituted an excellent example for investigating mountain-building processes for decades …

Chemical mohometry: Assessing crustal thickness of ancient orogens using geochemical and isotopic data

P Luffi, MN Ducea - Reviews of Geophysics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Convergent plate boundaries are key sites for continental crustal formation and recycling.
Quantifying the evolution of crustal thickness and paleoelevation along ancient convergent …

Final closure of the Paleo Asian Ocean basin in the early Triassic

Z Tan, W Xiao, Q Mao, H Wang, M Sang, R Li… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
The timing of the final welding of the southern Altaids to construct Pangea is a matter of
debate which has led to considerable uncertainty regarding the configuration of northeast …

Distinct tectono-magmatism on the margins of Rodinia and Gondwana

GH Wu, X Chu, M Tang, W Li, F Chen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The orogenic petrological processes associated with the amalgamation of Rodinia (ca. 1
Ga) and Gondwana (ca. 550 Ma) reflect distinct tectonic dynamics that might have …

Europium anomalies in detrital zircons record major transitions in Earth geodynamics at 2.5 Ga and 0.9 Ga

A Triantafyllou, MN Ducea, G Jepson… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Trace elements in zircon are a promising proxy with which to quantitatively study Earth's
long-term lithospheric processes and its geodynamic regimes. The zircon Eu anomaly …

Quantifying continental crust thickness using the machine learning method

P Guo, T Yang - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Crustal thickness plays a key role in many geological processes. However, it remains
challenging to quantify crustal thickness in the geological past. Here we propose an …

From Tethyan subduction to Arabia-Eurasia continental collision: Multiple geo-thermochronological signals from granitoids in NW Iran

Z Zhang, T Zack, B Kohn, MG Malusà, L Wu… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
NW Iran, situated between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, carries a record of both Paleo-
Tethyan and Neo-Tethyan tectonic evolution. During the Wilson Cycle of Tethys Ocean …

Cretaceous coastal mountain building and potential impacts on climate change in East Asia

J Li, S Dong, G Zhao, PA Cawood, ST Johnston… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Crustal thickness and elevation variations control mountain building and climate change at
convergent margins. As an archetypal Andean-type convergent margin, eastern Asia …

The southern extension of the Eocene Andean orogeny: New sedimentary record of the foreland basin in the southern Central Andes at 32° S

J Suriano, AC Lossada, JB Mahoney, AM Tedesco… - Basin …, 2023 - earthdoc.org
The Eocene compressional phase is well known to have contributed to the construction of
the Andes orogen at latitudes north of 30° S, but its extension to the south has not been fully …

Detrital zircon signals of the late Eocene provenance change of the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea

Y Li, C Gong, G Peng, X Qiu, RJ Steel, Z Xiao, Y He… - Sedimentary …, 2023 - Elsevier
A provenance change driven by tectonic and climatic forcing records the surface
geodynamic processes, and is of great significance for our understanding of evolving …