The future of Earth's oceans: consequences of subduction initiation in the Atlantic and implications for supercontinent formation

The Diffuse Plate boundary of Nubia and Iberia in the Western Mediterranean: Crustal deformation evidence for viscous coupling and fragmented lithosphere

(2015) Mimmo Palano et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Late Cretaceous plume-induced subduction initiation along the southern margin of the Caribbean and NW South America: The first documented example with implications for the onset of plate tectonics

(2015) Scott A. Whattam et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

How was the Iapetus Ocean infected with subduction?

(2014) John W.F. Waldron et al.   GEOLOGY

How collision triggers backarc extension: Insight into Mediterranean style of extension from 3-D numerical models

(2014) V. Magni et al.   GEOLOGY

Effects of various lithospheric yield stresses and different mantle-heating modes on the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent

(2014) Masaki Yoshida   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Statistical cyclicity of the supercontinent cycle

(2014) T. Rolf et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Dynamics of continental accretion

(2014) L. Moresi et al.   NATURE

The Scotia Arc: Genesis, Evolution, Global Significance

(2013) Ian W.D. Dalziel et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Are subduction zones invading the Atlantic? Evidence from the southwest Iberia margin

(2013) João C. Duarte et al.   GEOLOGY

Three-dimensional dynamic laboratory models of subduction with an overriding plate and variable interplate rheology

(2013) J. C. Duarte et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Porous fluid flow enables oceanic subduction initiation on Earth

(2013) D. Dymkova et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The supercontinent cycle: A retrospective essay

(2013) R. Damian Nance et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Stability of active mantle upwelling revealed by net characteristics of plate tectonics

(2013) Clinton P. Conrad et al.   NATURE

Testing the influence of far-field topographic forcing on subduction initiation at a passive margin

(2013) Fernando O. Marques et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Tectonic reconstructions for paleobathymetry in Drake Passage

(2013) Graeme Eagles et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Origins of the supercontinent cycle

(2013) R. Damian Nance et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Sub-slab seismic anisotropy and mantle flow beneath the Caribbean and Scotia subduction zones: Effects of slab morphology and kinematics

(2012) Colton Lynner et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Fossil Accretionary Wedge of the Bay of Biscay: Critical Wedge Analysis on Depth-Migrated Seismic Sections and Geodynamical Implications

(2012) Gabriela Fernández-Viejo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time

(2012) Ross N. Mitchell et al.   NATURE

Dynamic Causes of the Relation Between Area and Age of the Ocean Floor

(2012) N. Coltice et al.   SCIENCE

To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites

(2012) R.J. Stern et al.   Lithosphere

Speculations on the mechanisms for the formation and breakup of supercontinents

(2012) J. Brendan Murphy et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

The ‘subduction initiation rule’: a key for linking ophiolites, intra-oceanic forearcs, and subduction initiation

(2011) Scott A. Whattam et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Numerical analysis of subduction initiation risk along the Atlantic American passive margins

(2011) Ksenia Nikolaeva et al.   GEOLOGY

Switching between alternative responses of the lithosphere to continental collision

(2011) Marzieh Baes et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

What's in a name? The Columbia (Paleopangaea/Nuna) supercontinent

(2011) Joseph G. Meert   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Geodynamic reconstructions of the South America–Antarctica plate system

(2011) Christian Vérard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS

Thrust–wrench interference tectonics in the Gulf of Cadiz (Africa–Iberia plate boundary in the North-East Atlantic): Insights from analog models

(2011) João C. Duarte et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Seismic and gravity anomaly evidence of large-scale compressional deformation off SW Portugal

(2010) T.A. Cunha et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Supercontinents, mantle dynamics and plate tectonics: A perspective based on conceptual vs. numerical models

(2010) Masaki Yoshida et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Morphotectonics and strain partitioning at the Iberia–Africa plate boundary from multibeam and seismic reflection data

(2009) P. Terrinha et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Passive margins through earth history

(2008) Dwight C. Bradley   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Birth of an intraoceanic spreading center

(2008) Udo Barckhausen et al.   GEOLOGY

The Pangea conundrum

(2008) J. Brendan Murphy et al.   GEOLOGY

Global warming of the mantle beneath continents back to the Archaean

(2008) Nicolas Coltice et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Extrapolating Oceanic Age Distributions: Lessons from the Pacific Region

(2008) David B. Rowley   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Morphotectonic characterization of major bathymetric lineaments in Gulf of Cadiz (Africa–Iberia plate boundary): Insights from analogue modelling experiments

(2008) F.M. Rosas et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Subduction initiation by thermal–chemical plumes: Numerical studies

(2008) Kosuke Ueda et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Intermittent Plate Tectonics?

(2008) P. G. Silver et al.   SCIENCE

Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

(2007) Taras V. Gerya et al.   GEOLOGY