Abrupt plate accelerations shape rifted continental margins

Rapid Plate Motion Variations Through Geological Time: Observations Serving Geodynamic Interpretation

(2015) Giampiero Iaffaldano et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Galicia Bank ocean–continent transition zone: New seismic reflection constraints

(2015) S.L. Dean et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic Ocean

(2015) Roi Granot et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate-mantle system 60-50 million years ago

(2015) Maria Seton et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Abrupt tectonics and rapid slab detachment with grain damage

(2015) David Bercovici et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Basin evolution in the Davis Strait area (West Greenland and conjugate East Baffin/Labrador passive margins) from thermostratigraphic and subsidence modelling of well data: Implications for tectonic evolution and petroleum systems

(2015) E. D. McGregor et al.  

Timing of rifting in the southern Gulf of California and its conjugate margins: Insights from the plutonic record

(2014) Jose Duque-Trujillo et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Oblique rifting of the Equatorial Atlantic: Why there is no Saharan Atlantic Ocean

(2014) C. Heine et al.   GEOLOGY

Oblique rifting ruptures continents: Example from the Gulf of California shear zone

(2014) Scott E.K. Bennett et al.   GEOLOGY

A review of Wilson Cycle plate margins: A role for mantle plumes in continental break-up along sutures?

(2014) Susanne J.H. Buiter et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The late Mesozoic–Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective

(2014) Quanshu Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Cenozoic tectonic subsidence in deepwater sags in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea

(2014) Hui Xie et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Rift migration explains continental margin asymmetry and crustal hyper-extension

(2014) Sascha Brune et al.   Nature Communications

Kinematics of Jurassic ultra-slow spreading in the Piemonte Ligurian ocean

(2013) Reinoud L.M. Vissers et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The spatial and temporal evolution of strain during the separation of Australia and Antarctica

(2013) Philip Ball et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Quantification and restoration of extensional deformation along the Western Iberia and Newfoundland rifted margins

(2013) Emilie Sutra et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean

(2013) Joanne M. Whittaker et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

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(2013) Luca Ferrari   Geosphere

Quantifying the thermo-mechanical impact of plume arrival on continental break-up

(2013) Sascha Brune et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic evolution of the Colorado Basin, offshore Argentina, inferred from seismo-stratigraphy and depositional rates analysis

(2013) M.J. Loegering et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Inverse methods for modeling non-rigid plate kinematics: Application to mesozoic plate reconstructions of the Central Atlantic

(2012) Erik A. Kneller et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105−100Ma

(2012) Kara J. Matthews et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Modeling suggests that oblique extension facilitates rifting and continental break-up

(2012) Sascha Brune et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Tectono-stratigraphic signature of multiphased rifting on divergent margins (deep-offshore southwest Iberia, North Atlantic)

(2012) Ricardo Pereira et al.   TECTONICS

Paleogeographic evolution of the central segment of the South Atlantic during Early Cretaceous times: Paleotopographic and geodynamic implications

(2012) Anne-Claire Chaboureau et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Transition from symmetry to asymmetry during continental rifting: an example from the Bight Basin-Terre Adélie (Australian and Antarctic conjugate margins)

(2012) Nicolas Espurt et al.   TERRA NOVA

A simple analytical solution for slab detachment

(2011) Stefan M. Schmalholz   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Labrador margin, Atlantic Canada

(2011) Kate Dickie et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Indian and African plate motions driven by the push force of the Réunion plume head

(2011) Steven C. Cande et al.   NATURE

Full-fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins

(2011) Simon E. Williams et al.   TECTONICS

Depth, age and dynamic topography of oceanic lithosphere beneath heavily sedimented Atlantic margins

(2009) Jeffrey Winterbourne et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A new starting point for the South and Equatorial Atlantic Ocean

(2009) Maryline Moulin et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin

(2009) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The DNSC08GRA global marine gravity field from double retracked satellite altimetry

(2009) Ole Baltazar Andersen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODESY

Palaeocene–Recent plate boundaries in the NE Atlantic and the formation of the Jan Mayen microcontinent

(2009) C. Gaina et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Diachronous evolution of Late Jurassic-Cretaceous continental rifting in the northeast Atlantic (west Iberian margin)

(2009) Tiago M. Alves et al.   TECTONICS

Rheology of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle: Evidence from Rock Mechanics, Geodesy, and Field Observations

(2008) Roland Bürgmann et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The final rifting evolution at deep magma-poor passive margins from Iberia-Newfoundland: a new point of view

(2008) Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

SLIM3D: A tool for three-dimensional thermomechanical modeling of lithospheric deformation with elasto-visco-plastic rheology

(2008) A.A. Popov et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

(2008) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

The structure, evolution and symmetry of the magma-poor rifted margins of the North and Central Atlantic: A synthesis

(2008) T.J. Reston   TECTONOPHYSICS