Vlad Constantin Manea

TL;DR: The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB) is a 1000 km long Neogene continental arc showing a large variation in composition and volcanic style, and an intra-arc extensional tectonics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported that the subducting Cocos Plate beneath central Mexico is horizontal, and tectonically underplates the base of the crust for a distance of 250 km from the trench.

TL;DR: A ''continuously closed plate'' (CCP) is introduced, such that, as each margin moves independently, the plate polygon remains closed geometrically as a function of time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop time-dependent numerical experiments to explore how trenchward motion of thick cratons may result in flat subduction and find that as the craton approaches the trench and the wedge closes, two opposite phenomena control slab geometry: the suction between ocean and continent increases, favoring slab flattening, while the mantle confined within the closing wedge dynamically pushes the slab backward and steepens it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data for major, trace and volatile (H2O, CO2, S, Cl) elements from eight calc-alkaline inclusions from eight cinder cones with primitive magma characteristics and one evolved alkali basalt tuff ring.