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A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes
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In this article, a Cenozoic tectonic reconstruction is presented for the Southwest Pacific region located east of Australia, constrained by large geological and geophysical datasets and recalculated rotation parameters for Pacific-Australia and Lord Howe Rise-Pacific relative plate motion.About:
This article is published in Earth-Science Reviews.The article was published on 2006-06-01. It has received 478 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subduction & Lau Basin.read more
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Accretionary orogens through Earth history
Peter A. Cawood,Alfred Kröner,William J. Collins,Timothy M. Kusky,Walter D. Mooney,Brian F. Windley +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classify orogens into retreating and advancing types, based on their kinematic framework and resulting geological character, including the supra-subduction zone forearc, magmatic arc and back-arc components.
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Evolution and diversity of subduction zones controlled by slab width
Wouter P. Schellart,Justin Freeman,David Robert Stegman,Louis-Noel Moresi,David Alexander May +4 more
TL;DR: It is shown that slab width controls two first-order features of plate tectonics—the curvature of subduction zones and their tendency to retreat forward with time and trench migration rate is inversely related to slab width and depends on proximity to a lateral slab edge.
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Exhumation of oceanic blueschists and eclogites in subduction zones :Timing and mechanisms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of key information pertaining to fossil subduction zones (shape of exhumation P-T-t paths, exhumance velocities, timing of ex-humation with respect to the convergence process, convergence velocity, volume of exhuming exhumed rocks,...).
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Antarctica — Before and after Gondwana
TL;DR: The origin of the Antarctic continent can be traced to a relatively small late Archaean cratonic nucleus centred on the Terre Adelie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region of South Australia as discussed by the authors.
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A Paleolatitude Calculator for Paleoclimate Studies
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen,Lennart V. de Groot,Sebastiaan J. van Schaik,Wim Spakman,Peter K. Bijl,Appy Sluijs,Cor G. Langereis,Henk Brinkhuis +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that using a mantle reference frame, which defines plate positions relative to the mantle, instead of a paleomagnetic reference frame may introduce errors in paleolatitude of more than 15° (>1500 km), because mantle reference frames cannot constrain, or are specifically corrected for the effects of true polar wander.
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Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings
TL;DR: In this paper, a digital bathymetric map of the oceans with a horizontal resolution of 1 to 12 kilometers was derived by combining available depth soundings with high-resolution marine gravity information from the Geosat and ERS-1 spacecraft.
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Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic
Steven C. Cande,Dennis V. Kent +1 more
TL;DR: An adjusted geomagnetic reversal chronology for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic is presented that is consistent with astrochronology in the Pleistocene and Pliocene and with a new timescale for the Mesozoic.
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Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations
TL;DR: In this article, a model for the Cenozoic development of the region of SE Asia and the SW Pacific is presented and its implications are discussed, accompanied by computer animations in a variety of formats.
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Subduction and Slab Detachment in the Mediterranean-Carpathian Region
M. J. R. Wortel,Wim Spakman +1 more
TL;DR: Seismic tomography models of the three-dimensional upper mantle velocity structure of the Mediterranean-Carpathian region provide a better understanding of the lithospheric processes governing its geodynamical evolution.
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Plate convergence, transcurrent faults, and internal deformation adjacent to Southeast Asia and the western Pacific
TL;DR: In this paper, a model for oblique convergence between plates of lithosphere is proposed in which at least a fraction of slip parallel to the plate margin results in transcurrent movements on a nearly vertical fault which is located on the continental side of a zone of plate consumption.