South-American plate advance and forced Andean trench retreat as drivers for transient flat subduction episodes

Simulation of late Cenozoic South American flat-slab subduction using geodynamic models with data assimilation

(2016) Jiashun Hu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Abnormal seismological and magmatic processes controlled by the tearing South American flat slabs

(2016) Jiashun Hu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Subduction system and flat slab beneath the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

(2016) Claudio Chiarabba et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Overriding plate, mantle wedge, slab, and subslab contributions to seismic anisotropy beneath the northern Central Andean Plateau

(2016) Maureen D. Long et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Thermo-mechanical controls of flat subduction: Insights from numerical modeling

(2016) Pengpeng Huangfu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Effects of change in slab geometry on the mantle flow and slab fabric in Southern Peru

(2016) Sanja Knezevic Antonijevic et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Absolute plate motions since 130 Ma constrained by subduction zone kinematics

(2015) Simon Williams et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Influence of cratonic lithosphere on the formation and evolution of flat slabs: Insights from 3-D time-dependent modeling

(2015) Jorge M. Taramón et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Imaging the transition from flat to normal subduction: variations in the structure of the Nazca slab and upper mantle under southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia

(2015) Alissa Scire et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Kinematic reconstruction of the Bolivian orocline

(2015) Nathan Eichelberger et al.   Geosphere

The role of ridges in the formation and longevity of flat slabs

(2015) Sanja Knezevic Antonijevic et al.   NATURE

Constraints on deformation of the Southern Andes since the Cretaceous from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility

(2015) Marco Maffione et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean region since the Early Jurassic

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Slab-mantle flow interaction: influence on subduction dynamics and duration

(2014) Juan Rodríguez-González et al.   TERRA NOVA

Three-dimensional mantle circulations and lateral slab deformation in the southern Chilean subduction zone

(2014) Shu-Chuan Lin   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Spontaneous development of arcuate single-sided subduction in global 3-D mantle convection models with a free surface

(2014) Fabio Crameri et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Influence of geometry and eclogitization on oceanic plateau subduction

(2013) Pierre-André Arrial et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The lack of correlation between flat slabs and bathymetric impactors in South America

(2013) Steven M. Skinner et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Seismic anisotropy around subduction zones: Insights from three-dimensional modeling of upper mantle deformation and SKS splitting calculations

(2013) M. Faccenda et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

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

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

Segmentation of the Farallon slab

(2011) Lijun Liu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Chilean flat slab subduction controlled by overriding plate thickness and trench rollback

(2011) Vlad C. Manea et al.   GEOLOGY

Slab1.0: A three-dimensional model of global subduction zone geometries

(2011) Gavin P. Hayes et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Horizontal subduction zones, convergence velocity and the building of the Andes

(2010) J. Martinod et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reconciling surface plate motions with rapid three-dimensional mantle flow around a slab edge

(2010) Margarete A. Jadamec et al.   NATURE

Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

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

Cyclicity in Cordilleran orogenic systems

(2009) Peter G. DeCelles et al.   Nature Geoscience

Three-dimensional numerical models of the influence of a buoyant oceanic plateau on subduction zones

(2009) W.G. Mason et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Global trench migration velocities and slab migration induced upper mantle volume fluxes: Constraints to find an Earth reference frame based on minimizing viscous dissipation

(2008) W.P. Schellart et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Impact of regional mantle flow on subducting plate geometry and interplate stress: insights from physical modelling

(2008) David A. Boutelier et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

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

Paleogene building of the Bolivian Orocline: Tectonic restoration of the central Andes in 2-D map view

(2008) C. Arriagada et al.   TECTONICS