The supercontinent cycle

RN Mitchell, N Zhang, J Salminen, Y Liu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Supercontinents signify self-organization in plate tectonics. Over the past~ 2 billion years,
three major supercontinents have been identified, with increasing age: Pangaea, Rodinia …

Continental rift evolution: from rift initiation to incipient break-up in the Main Ethiopian Rift, East Africa

G Corti - Earth-science reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The Main Ethiopian Rift is a key sector of the East African Rift System that connects the Afar
depression, at Red Sea–Gulf of Aden junction, with the Turkana depression and Kenya Rift …

Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles

S Tappe, K Smart, T Torsvik, M Massuyeau… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Kimberlite magmatism has occurred in cratonic regions on every continent. The global age
distribution suggests that this form of mantle melting has been more prominent after 1.2 Ga …

[图书][B] Igneous rocks and processes: a practical guide

R Gill, G Fitton - 2022 - books.google.com
IGNEOUS ROCKS AND PROCESSES A practical introduction to igneous petrology for
students and practitioners The newly revised Second Edition of Igneous Rocks and …

Mediterranean extension and the Africa‐Eurasia collision

L Jolivet, C Faccenna - Tectonics, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A number of tectonic events occurred contemporaneously in the Mediterranean region and
the Middle East 30–25 Myr ago. These events are contemporaneous to or immediately …

[HTML][HTML] The lithospheric architecture of Africa: Seismic tomography, mantle petrology, and tectonic evolution

GC Begg, WL Griffin, LM Natapov… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present a new analysis of the lithospheric architecture of Africa, and its evolution from ca.
3.6 Ga to the present. Upper-lithosphere domains, generated or reworked in different time …

[图书][B] Global tectonics

P Kearey, KA Klepeis, FJ Vine - 2009 - books.google.com
The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to
all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant …

Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion

N Feuillet, S Jorry, WC Crawford, C Deplus… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Volcanic eruptions shape Earth's surface and provide a window into deep Earth processes.
How the primary asthenospheric melts form, pond and ascend through the lithosphere is …

Complex shear wave velocity structure imaged beneath Africa and Iceland

J Ritsema, HJ Heijst, JH Woodhouse - Science, 1999 - science.org
A model of three-dimensional shear wave velocity variations in the mantle reveals a tilted
low velocity anomaly extending from the core-mantle boundary (CMB) region beneath the …

Initiation of the western branch of the East African Rift coeval with the eastern branch

EM Roberts, NJ Stevens, PM O'Connor, P Dirks… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract The East African Rift System transects the anomalously high-elevation Ethiopian
and East African plateaux that together form part of the 6,000-km-long African superswell …