Late Miocene exhumation of the Western Cordillera, Ecuador, driven by increased coupling between the subducting Carnegie Ridge and the South American …

A Margirier, MR Strecker, PW Reiners, SN Thomson… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The subduction of bathymetric highs, such as aseismic ridges, leads to far‐reaching
changes in the dynamics of subduction zones with increased plate coupling and …

Geometric and kinematic analysis of faults bordering the Andaman sea continental shelves: a 3D seismic case study

M Guo, X Luan, H Zhang, B He - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To clarify the tectonic evolution of M15 block in the Andaman Sea, we perform a delicate
study of fault geometry and dynamics using a 3D seismic data. The data reveal eight …

[HTML][HTML] Extensional forearc structures at the transition from Alaska to Aleutian Subduction Zone: slip partitioning, terranes and large earthquakes

A Kahrizi, M Delescluse… - Comptes …, 2024 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
The Unimak and Shumagin segments of the Alaska Aleutian Subduction Zone show
extensional deformation of the forearc since the Miocene. Using legacy seismic profiles and …

[HTML][HTML] Magnitude, timing, and rate of slip along the Atacama fault system, northern Chile: implications for Early Cretaceous slip partitioning and plate convergence

NM Seymour, JS Singleton… - Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Displacement estimates along the Atacama fault system (AFS), a crustal-scale sinistral
structure that accommodated oblique convergence in the Mesozoic Coastal Cordillera arc …

Variations in wedge earthquake distribution along the strike underlain by thermally controlled hydrated megathrusts

R Qu, Y Ji, W Zhu - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Resource and environmental effects. Abstract Accretionary wedge
earthquakes usually occur in the overriding crust close to the trench or above the cold nose …

Strain partitioning and fault kinematics in the northern Qilian Shan (NE Tibet) determined from Bayesian inference of geodetic data

Y Zhang, S Wimpenny, L Dal Zilio… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Oblique convergence across the northern Qilian Shan is accommodated by sub‐parallel
strike‐slip and thrust faults that ruptured simultaneously in the Mw 8 Gulang earthquake in …

Oblique plate convergence along arcuate trenches on a spherical Earth. An example from the Western Sunda Arc

M Guzmán-Speziale - Acta Geophysica, 2024 - Springer
We propose a new definition of oblique plate convergence. Our model considers arc-trench
curvature on a spherical Earth, and defines obliquity as the angle between the direction of …

Inhomogeneous strain partitioning in the Cenozoic Bohai Bay Basin controlled by pre-existing crustal fabrics and oblique subduction: Insights from the Jizhong and …

Y Su, W Chen, L Wu, H Deng, L Mao, C Wang… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2024 - Elsevier
The tectonic features and geodynamics of the Bohai Bay Basin (BBB) have been extensively
studied over several decades. It is generally accepted that the Cenozoic BBB was subjected …

The calderas field of northern Chile (Atacama region): eruptive mechanisms and structural control in the latest Cretaceous to Eocene Andean magmatic arc

N Rodríguez, P Fuentes, E Aragón, M Lillo… - Journal of South …, 2024 - Elsevier
Thick volcanic and volcano-sedimentary deposits represent Late Cretaceous to Eocene arc
magmatism in the Copiapó pre-cordillera (Chile at∼ 26° S), being the result of the activity of …

Early Paleozoic oblique convergence from subduction to collision: Insights from timing and structural style of the transpressional dextral shear zone in the Qilian …

Y Wu, J Zhang, B Zhang, X Mao, Z Lu, G Zhou… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Transpressional shear zones commonly occur in ancient and modern convergent plate
boundaries to accommodate oblique plate convergence. The early Paleozoic Qilian orogen …