The causes of continental arc flare ups and drivers of episodic magmatic activity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

JB Chapman, JE Shields, MN Ducea, SR Paterson… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental arcs in Cordilleran orogenic systems display episodic changes in magma
production rate, alternating between flare ups (70–90 km 3 km− 1 Myr− 1) and lulls (< 20 km …

Geodynamic controls on magmatic arc migration and quiescence

GM Gianni, SP Luján - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

[HTML][HTML] Broken foreland basins and the influence of subduction dynamics, tectonic inheritance, and mechanical triggers

BK Horton, TN Capaldi, C Mackaman-Lofland… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Full waveform inversion beneath the central Andes: Insight into the dehydration of the Nazca slab and delamination of the back‐arc lithosphere

Y Gao, F Tilmann, DP van Herwaarden… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new seismic tomography model for the crust and upper mantle beneath the
Central Andes based on multi‐scale full seismic waveform inversion, proceeding from long …

Adjoint waveform tomography of South America

C Ciardelli, M Assumpção, E Bozdağ… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We used 3D spectral‐element seismic wave simulations and data from 112 earthquakes
and 1,311 seismic stations, totalizing 20,884 unique ray paths, to construct an adjoint …

The fate of the Farallon slab beneath Patagonia and its links to Cenozoic intraplate magmatism, marine transgressions and topographic uplift

C Navarrete, G Gianni, G Massaferro, K Butler - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
The arrival and subsequent stagnation of the Farallon/Nazca slab at the mantle transition
zone below southern South America triggered seemingly unrelated large-scale geological …

Nature versus nurture: Preservation and destruction of Archean cratons

H Bedle, CM Cooper, CD Frost - Tectonics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The factors that promote stability of Archean cratons are investigated from a combined
geodynamic, geological, and geophysical perspective in order to evaluate the relative …

Imaging upper mantle anisotropy with teleseismic P-wave delays: insights from tomographic reconstructions of subduction simulations

BP VanderBeek, M Faccenda - Geophysical Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Despite the well-established anisotropic nature of Earth's upper mantle, the influence of
elastic anisotropy on teleseismic P-wave imaging remains largely ignored. Unmodelled …

Hydrogen incorporation mechanism in the lower-mantle bridgmanite

N Purevjav, N Tomioka, S Yamashita… - American …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in the lower mantle, can play an essential role in
deep-Earth hydrogen storage and circulation processes. To better evaluate the hydrogen …

[HTML][HTML] The Northern Chile forearc constrained by 15 years of permanent seismic monitoring

C Sippl, B Schurr, J Münchmeyer, S Barrientos… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review article, we compile seismological observations from the different constituent
parts of the Northern Chile forearc: the downgoing Nazca Plate, the plate interface, the …