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Kevin Burke
Researcher at University of Houston
Publications - 167
Citations - 13162
Kevin Burke is an academic researcher from University of Houston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rift & Continental margin. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 164 publications receiving 12099 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin Burke include University of Toronto & Lunar and Planetary Institute.
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Plume-Generated Triple Junctions: Key Indicators in Applying Plate Tectonics to Old Rocks
Kevin Burke,John F. Dewey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is proposed that divergent plate motion has commonly begun at axial dikes emplaced in rifts formed in this way, and a normal course of events is that two of the rifts meeting at a junction to open by plate accretion while the third rift becomes inactive as a failed arm.
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Tibetan, Variscan, and Precambrian Basement Reactivation: Products of Continental Collision
John F. Dewey,Kevin Burke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider that continental collision is followed by crustal thickening, to accommodate further plate convergence, with ensuing partial melting of the lower crust, resulting in a dry refractory lower crust consisting of pyroxene granulites and anor-thosites.
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Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on earth and its tectonic implications
A. M. Celal Sengör,Kevin Burke +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that two basic types of rifting-volcanism relative timing might be related to two basic modes of rifts, i.e., volcanism and local doming predate major rift formation, while rifts form first and volcanism follows.
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Development of Pull-Apart Basins
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of pull-apart basins is discussed based on results of field studies in active and ancient strike-slip zones, and field observations from mainly active basins are synthesized into a qualitative model of the continuous growth of pullaparts from nucleation to extreme development.
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Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary
TL;DR: The Plume Generation Zones (PGZs) as discussed by the authors are defined as regions where the boundaries of one of the LLSVPs or LSVPs and the seismically faster part of the deep mantle meet.