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Can Earth's rotation and tidal despinning drive plate tectonics?
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In this paper, the authors re-evaluate the possibility that Earth's rotation contributes to plate tectonics on the basis of the following observations: 1) plates move along a westerly polarized flow that forms an angle relative to the equator close to the revolution plane of the Moon; 2) plate boundaries are asymmetric, being their geographic polarity the first order controlling parameter; unlike recent analysis, the slab dip is confirmed to be steeper along W-directed subduction zones; 3) the global seismicity depends on latitude and correlates with the decadal oscillations ofAbout:
This article is published in Tectonophysics.The article was published on 2010-03-19. It has received 99 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Plate tectonics & Asthenosphere.read more
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Alps vs. Apennines: The paradigm of a tectonically asymmetric Earth
Eugenio Carminati,Carlo Doglioni +1 more
TL;DR: Alps and Apennines developed along opposite subductions, which inverted the tethyan passive continental margins located along the boundaries of Europe, Africa and the Adriatic plates as mentioned in this paper.
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Compressional intracontinental orogens: Ancient and modern perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, a range of hypotheses regarding the origins and transmission of compressive stresses in intraplate settings are investigated as potential driving forces, and their relationship to rheological models of the lithosphere is addressed.
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Indentation-induced tearing of a subducting continent: Evidence from the Tan–Lu Fault Zone, East China
TL;DR: The Tan-Lu Fault Zone (TLFZ) as discussed by the authors is a sinistral fault that is exposed in ductile shear belts just to the east of the Dabie Orogen.
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Current plate motions
TL;DR: A global plate motion model, named NUVEL-1, which describes current plate motions between 12 rigid plates is described, with special attention given to the method, data, and assumptions used as discussed by the authors.
Current plate motions
TL;DR: In this paper, a new global model (NUVEL-1) was proposed to describe the geologically current motion between 12 assumed-rigid plates by inverting plate motion data.
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The energy release in great earthquakes
TL;DR: In this paper, a new magnitude scale M_w is defined in terms of W_0 through the standard energy-magnitude relation log W_ 0 = 1.5M_w + 11.8.
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Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination
TL;DR: In this article, a global probability model was developed for later-arriving phases to independently identify the depth phases, and the relocations were compared to hypocenters reported in the ISC and NEIC catalogs and by other sources.