Neo-Tethys geodynamics and mantle convection: from extension to compression in Africa and a conceptual model for obduction

Kinematic reconstructions and magmatic evolution illuminating crustal and mantle dynamics of the eastern Mediterranean region since the late Cretaceous

(2016) Armel Menant et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Obduction triggered by regional heating during plate reorganization

(2016) Marc Hässig et al.   TERRA NOVA

Long duration (>4 Ma) and steady-state volcanic activity in the early Cretaceous Paraná–Etendeka Large Igneous Province: New palaeomagnetic data from Namibia

(2015) Sarah C. Dodd et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions

(2015) Sabin Zahirovic et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Black Sea basins structure and history: New model based on new deep penetration regional seismic data. Part 1: Basins structure and fill

(2015) Anatoly M. Nikishin et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

The Black Sea basins structure and history: New model based on new deep penetration regional seismic data. Part 2: Tectonic history and paleogeography

(2015) Anatoly M. Nikishin et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Anomalously fast convergence of India and Eurasia caused by double subduction

(2015) Oliver Jagoutz et al.   Nature Geoscience

Dual continental rift systems generated by plume–lithosphere interaction

(2015) A. Koptev et al.   Nature Geoscience

Style of rifting and the stages of Pangea breakup

(2015) Dominique Frizon de Lamotte et al.   TECTONICS

Geodynamic models of continental subduction and obduction of overriding plate forearc oceanic lithosphere on top of continental crust

(2015) Sarah J. Edwards et al.   TECTONICS

Obduction: Why, how and where. Clues from analog models

(2014) P. Agard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reconstructing the Cenozoic evolution of the mantle: Implications for mantle plume dynamics under the Pacific and Indian plates

(2014) Petar Glišović et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Adakite differentiation and emplacement in a subduction channel: The late Paleocene Sabzevar magmatism (NE Iran)

(2014) F. Rossetti et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The Ayyubid Orogen: An Ophiolite Obduction-Driven Orogen in the Late Cretaceous of the Neo-Tethyan South Margin

(2014) A.M. Celâl Şengör et al.   GEOSCIENCE CANADA

Asymmetric three-dimensional topography over mantle plumes

(2014) Evgueni Burov et al.   NATURE

Deep mantle structure as a reference frame for movements in and on the Earth

(2014) T. H. Torsvik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid South Atlantic spreading changes and coeval vertical motion in surrounding continents: Evidence for temporal changes of pressure-driven upper mantle flow

(2014) L. Colli et al.   TECTONICS

Placing limits to shortening evolution in the Pyrenees: Role of margin architecture and implications for the Iberia/Europe convergence

(2014) Frédéric Mouthereau et al.   TECTONICS

Rapid erosion of the Southern African Plateau as it climbs over a mantle superswell

(2014) Jean Braun et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Importance of continental subductions for the growth of the Tibetan plateau

(2013) S. Guillot et al.   BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

(2013) Claudio Faccenna et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Vertical movements along the northern border of the West African Craton: the Reguibat Shield and adjacent basins

(2013) R. LEPRÊTRE et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

"Moist MORB" axial magmatism in the Oman ophiolite: The evidence against a mid-ocean ridge origin

(2013) C. J. MacLeod et al.   GEOLOGY

Seismic anisotropy in eastern Africa, mantle flow, and the African superplume

(2013) Brian Bagley et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Neotethys closure history of Anatolia: insights from40Ar-39Ar geochronology andP-Testimation in high-pressure metasedimentary rocks

(2013) A. Pourteau et al.   JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY

The sole of an ophiolite: the Ordovician Bay of Islands Complex, Newfoundland

(2013) John F. Dewey et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Mechanism and timing of tectonic inversion in Cyrenaica (Libya): Integration in the geodynamics of the East Mediterranean

(2013) Stavros Arsenikos et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The African Plate: A history of oceanic crust accretion and subduction since the Jurassic

(2013) Carmen Gaina et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic development of the Samail ophiolite: High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology and Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on crustal growth and emplacement

(2013) Matthew Rioux et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Rapid magma emplacement in the Karoo Large Igneous Province

(2012) Henrik Svensen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mantle structure beneath Africa and Arabia from adaptively parameterized P-wave tomography: Implications for the origin of Cenozoic Afro-Arabian tectonism

(2012) Samantha E. Hansen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models

(2012) Dan J. Bower et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Time-dependent convection models of mantle thermal structure constrained by seismic tomography and geodynamics: implications for mantle plume dynamics and CMB heat flux

(2012) P. Glišović et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Amount of Asian lithospheric mantle subducted during the India/Asia collision

(2012) Anne Replumaz et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Absolute plate motions in a reference frame defined by moving hot spots in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans

(2012) Pavel V. Doubrovine et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Insights on deep, accretionary subduction processes from the Sistan ophiolitic “mélange” (Eastern Iran)

(2012) S. Angiboust et al.   LITHOS

GROWTH AND DISPERSAL OF A SOUTHEAST AFRICAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE

(2012) K. GOHL et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Mountain building and mantle dynamics

(2012) Claudio Faccenna et al.   TECTONICS

Building the Zagros collisional orogen: Timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence

(2012) F. Mouthereau et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

New structural and petrological data on the Amasia ophiolites (NW Sevan–Akera suture zone, Lesser Caucasus): Insights for a large-scale obduction in Armenia and NE Turkey

(2012) M. Hässig et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Plate Tectonics, the Wilson Cycle, and Mantle Plumes: Geodynamics from the Top

(2011) Kevin Burke   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Quantification and causes of the terrigeneous sediment budget at the scale of a continental margin: a new method applied to the Namibia-South Africa margin

(2011) F. Guillocheau et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

(2011) P. AGARD et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Acceleration and deceleration of India-Asia convergence since the Cretaceous: Roles of mantle plumes and continental collision

(2011) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Changes in African topography driven by mantle convection

(2011) Robert Moucha et al.   Nature Geoscience

The southernmost margin of the Tethys realm during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic: Initial geometry and timing of the inversion processes

(2011) Dominique Frizon de Lamotte et al.   TECTONICS

Early–Middle Jurassic intra-oceanic subduction in the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Ocean, Northern Turkey

(2011) Ömer Faruk Çelik et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Joint seismic–geodynamic-mineral physical modelling of African geodynamics: A reconciliation of deep-mantle convection with surface geophysical constraints

(2010) Alessandro M. Forte et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Protracted continental collisions argue for continental plates driven by basal traction

(2010) Walter Alvarez   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

(2010) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   NATURE

3D architecture of a complex transcurrent rift system: The example of the Bay of Biscay–Western Pyrenees

(2010) Suzon Jammes et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Coeval blueschist exhumation along thousands of kilometers: Implications for subduction channel processes

(2009) P. Monié et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Tectonic setting of kimberlites

(2009) Hielke Jelsma et al.   LITHOS

Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

(2009) Douwe G. van der Meer et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Zermatt-Saas ophiolite: the largest (60-km wide) and deepest (c.70-80 km) continuous slice of oceanic lithosphere detached from a subduction zone?

(2009) S. Angiboust et al.   TERRA NOVA

Early Cretaceous migmatitic mafic granulites from the Sabzevar range (NE Iran): implications for the closure of the Mesozoic peri-Tethyan oceans in central Iran

(2009) Federico Rossetti et al.   TERRA NOVA

Tectonics and subsidence evolution of the Sirt Basin, Libya

(2008) Abdulbaset M. Abadi et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust

(2008) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Aegean

(2008) Laurent Jolivet et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Sahara, Northern Africa

(2008) Christopher S. Swezey   JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Lower Mantle

(2008) E. J. Garnero et al.   SCIENCE

Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics

(2008) R. D. Muller et al.   SCIENCE

The Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaridic orogenic system: correlation and evolution of tectonic units

(2008) Stefan M. Schmid et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences

Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary

(2007) Kevin Burke et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS