Cretaceous long-distance lithospheric extension and surface response in South China

J Li, S Dong, PA Cawood, H Thybo, PD Clift… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lithospheric extension plays a pivotal role in governing the evolution of continents and the
birth of oceanic basins on Earth. Despite this, quantifying wide-mode lithospheric extension …

Crustal structure of active deformation zones in Africa: Implications for global crustal processes

CJ Ebinger, D Keir, ID Bastow, K Whaler… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cenozoic East African rift (EAR), Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL), and Atlas
Mountains formed on the slow‐moving African continent, which last experienced orogeny …

Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions: a Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach

W Shen, MH Ritzwoller… - Geophysical Journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A non-linear Bayesian Monte-Carlo method is presented to estimate a Vsv model beneath
stations by jointly interpreting Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions and …

Possible control of subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity by silica enrichment

P Audet, R Bürgmann - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Seismic and geodetic observations in subduction zone forearcs indicate that slow
earthquakes, including episodic tremor and slip, recur at intervals of less than six months to …

Distinct crustal isostasy trends east and west of the Rocky Mountain Front

B Schmandt, FC Lin… - Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic structure beneath the contiguous US was imaged with multimode receiver function
stacking and inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion and ellipticity measurements. Crust …

Crustal thickness and Poisson's ratios of South China revealed from joint inversion of receiver function and gravity data

L Guo, R Gao, L Shi, Z Huang, Y Ma - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Crustal thickness and Poisson's ratio are two important parameters for understanding the
crustal structure, composition, and deformation of the South China block. Due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis

KE Karlstrom, D Coblentz, K Dueker… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The correspondence between seismic velocity anomalies in the crust and mantle and the
differential incision of the continental-scale Colorado River system suggests that significant …

The influence of extension rate and crustal rheology on the evolution of passive margins from rifting to break-up

JL Tetreault, SJH Buiter - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Extension rate and crustal strength are two important factors that influence the shape of
initial rift basins and final passive margin architecture. The extension rate will also affect …

An updated stress map of the continental United States reveals heterogeneous intraplate stress

W Levandowski, RB Herrmann, R Briggs, O Boyd… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the state of stress in Earth's crust is key to understanding the forces
and processes responsible for earthquakes. Historically, low rates of natural seismicity in the …

Evolutionary aspects of lithosphere discontinuity structure in the western US

A Levander, MS Miller - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We have produced common conversion point (CCP) stacked Ps and Sp receiver function
image volumes of the Moho and lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath the …