[HTML][HTML] Coupled surface to deep Earth processes: Perspectives from TOPO-EUROPE with an emphasis on climate-and energy-related societal challenges

S Cloetingh, P Sternai, A Koptev, TA Ehlers… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the interactions between surface and deep Earth processes is important for
research in many diverse scientific areas including climate, environment, energy …

Plume‐induced sinking of intracontinental lithospheric mantle: An overlooked mechanism of subduction initiation?

S Cloetingh, A Koptev, I Kovács, T Gerya… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although many different mechanisms for subduction initiation have been proposed, only few
of them are viable in terms of consistency with observations and reproducibility in numerical …

Bias and error in modelling thermochronometric data: Resolving a potential increase in Plio-Pleistocene erosion rate

SD Willett, F Herman, M Fox, N Stalder… - Earth surface …, 2020 - esurf.copernicus.org
Thermochronometry provides one of few methods to quantify rock exhumation rate and
history, including potential changes in exhumation rate. Thermochronometric ages can …

Understanding subduction infancy to mature subduction in Southwest Japan via the self-consistent formation of a weak slab interface

C Lee, YH Kim - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The weak slab interface controls long-term subduction dynamics. A weak hydrous layer at
the slab interface promotes mechanical decoupling between the forearc mantle and the …

Effects of Along‐Trench Asymmetric Subduction Initiation on Plate Rotation and Trench Migration: A Laboratory Modeling Perspective

C Wang, W Ding, WP Schellart, Z Tong, C Dong… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of along‐trench asymmetric subduction on plate kinematic evolution (eg, plate
rotation and trench migration) remains enigmatic. In this study, analog experiments were …

Connection between a subcontinental plume and the mid‐lithospheric discontinuity leads to fast and intense craton lithospheric thinning

YN Shi, ZH Li, L Chen, JP Morgan - Tectonics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Removal and thinning of cratonic lithosphere is believed to have occurred under different
tectonic settings, for example, near subduction zones and above mantle plumes. Subduction …

Plate corner subduction and rapid localized exhumation: Insights from 3D coupled geodynamic and geomorphological modelling

A Koptev, M Nettesheim, TA Ehlers - Terra Nova, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid, localized exhumation has been reported at many plate corners between adjacent
subduction/collision segments. Here we use a fully‐coupled geodynamic and …

Multi-stage tectonic events of the Eastern Kunlun Mountains, Northern Tibetan Plateau constrained by fission track thermochronology

P Tian, W Yuan, X Yang, Z Feng, X Chen… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present Tibetan plateau is a collage of several terranes, including the Lhasa,
Qiangtang, Songpan-Ganzi and Kunlun-Qaidam terranes. Following closure of the Palaeo …

Slab subduction and pull link magmatism at active and passive continental margins

LQ Dai, K Zhao, ZF Zhao, GC Sun… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Subduction leads to voluminous arc magmatism at active continental margins; however, the
potential far‐field geodynamic connections with coeval magmatism along opposing passive …

3D geodynamic-geomorphologic modelling of deformation and exhumation at curved plate boundaries: Implications for the southern Alaskan plate corner

A Koptev, M Nettesheim, S Falkowski, TA Ehlers - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Plate corners with extreme exhumation rates are important because they offer a perspective
for understanding the interactions between tectonics and surface processes. The southern …