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India–Eurasia convergence speed-up by passive-margin sediment subduction
Patriat, P. & Achache, J. India–Eurasia collision chronology has implications for crustal shortening and driving mechanism of plates.…
Highly variable magmatic accretion at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel Ridge
Reid, I. & Jackson, H. R. Oceanic spreading rate and crustal thickness. Mar. Geophys. Res. 5, 165–172 (1981).…
Coevolution of craton margins and interiors during continental break-up
Mapping the great escarpments We model escarpment features using the SRTM void-filled 15-arcsec GMTED2010 datasets digital elevation models…
Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour
Avouac, J.-P. From geodetic imaging of seismic and aseismic fault slip to dynamic modeling of the seismic cycle.…
Seismological evidence for a multifault network at the subduction interface
Rowe, C. D., Moore, J. C., Remitti, F. & the IODP Expedition 343/343T Scientists. The thickness of subduction…
Mid-ocean ridge unfaulting revealed by magmatic intrusions
Sykes, L. R. Mechanism of earthquakes and nature of faulting on the mid-oceanic ridges. J. Geophys. Res. 72,…