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Present‐Day Crustal Deformation of Continental China Derived From GPS and Its Tectonic Implications Open
We process rigorously GPS data observed during the past 25 years from continental China to derive site secular velocities. Analysis of the velocity solution leads to the following results. (a) The deformation field inside the Tibetan plate…
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Characteristics of the surface ruptures associated with the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence, central Kyushu, Japan Open
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence started with a M J (Japan Meteorological Agency magnitude) 6.5 event on April 14, and culminated in a M J 7.3 event on April 16. Associated with the sequence, approximately 34-km-long surface ruptures …
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Late Paleozoic strike-slip faults in Maritime Canada and their role in the reconfiguration of the northern Appalachian orogen Open
Major late Paleozoic faults, many with documented strike-slip motion, have dissected the Ordovician-Devonian Appalachian orogen in the Maritime Provinces of Atlantic Canada. Activity alternated between east-west faults (Minas trend) and NE…
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Kinematics of the Tengchong Terrane in SE Tibet from the late Eocene to early Miocene: Insights from coeval mid-crustal detachments and strike-slip shear zones Open
It is generally believed that the extrusion of SE Tibet was bounded by the dextral Gaoligong and the sinistral Ailaoshan-Red River strike-slip shear zones from the Oligocene to early Miocene. This study integrates field map- ping, structur…
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Tectonic expression of an active slab tear from high‐resolution seismic and bathymetric data offshore Sicily (Ionian Sea) Open
Subduction of a narrow slab of oceanic lithosphere beneath a tightly curved orogenic arc requires the presence of at least one lithospheric scale tear fault. While the Calabrian subduction beneath southern Italy is considered to be the typ…
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New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of South China: Early Paleozoic sinistral and Triassic dextral transpression in the east Wuyishan and Chencai domains, NE Cathaysia Open
The northeast Cathaysia area is characterized by an archetypical, transpressional system with widespread strike‐slip shear zones whose geometries, kinematics, and ages are critical for deciphering the Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of Sout…
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CHIRALITY AND MAGNETIC CONFIGURATIONS OF SOLAR FILAMENTS Open
It has been revealed that the magnetic topology in the solar atmosphere displays hemispheric preference, i.e., helicity is mainly negative/positive in the northern/southern hemispheres, respectively. However, the strength of the hemispheri…
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Early Pleistocene drainage pattern changes in Eastern Tibet: Constraints from provenance analysis, thermochronometry, and numerical modeling Open
The geometry and evolution of fluvial systems are thought to be related to surface uplift. In eastern Tibet, rivers exhibit peculiar drainage patterns but how these patterns were established and their connection with the plateau uplift are…
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Building the Pamir-Tibetan Plateau-Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 1. Geometry and kinematics Open
Asian deep crust exposed in the Pamir permits determination of the amount, sequence, and interaction of shortening, extension, and lateral extrusion over ~30 km of crustal section during the India-Asia collision. In the Central Pamir, gnei…
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The role of pre‐existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland Open
Continental breakup between Greenland and North America produced the small oceanic basins of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, which are connected via the Davis Strait, a region mostly comprised of continental crust. This study contributes …
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High‐Resolution Field Mapping and Analysis of the August–October 2016 Coseismic Surface Faulting (Central Italy Earthquakes): Slip Distribution, Parameterization, and Comparison With Global Earthquakes Open
We focus on the coseismic surface faulting exposed along the Mt. Vettore‐Mt. Bove fault system (VBF, central Italy), that activated during the 24 August 2016, Amatrice earthquake (M w 6.0) and soon after reactivated during the 26 October V…
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Rupture termination at restraining bends: The last great earthquake on the Altyn Tagh Fault Open
Strike‐slip rupture propagation falters where changes in fault strike increase Coulomb failure stress. Numerical models of this phenomenon offer predictions of rupture extent based on bend geometry, but have not been verified with field da…
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Coupled Crust‐Mantle Response to Slab Tearing, Bending, and Rollback Along the Dinaride‐Hellenide Orogen Open
We integrate structural, geophysical, and geodetic studies showing that the Dinarides‐Hellenides orogen along the Adria‐Europe plate boundary in the Western Balkan peninsula has experienced clockwise oroclinal bending since Eocene‐Oligocen…
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Complex spatiotemporal evolution of the 2008 <i>M<sub>w</sub></i> 4.9 Mogul earthquake swarm (Reno, Nevada): Interplay of fluid and faulting Open
After approximately 2 months of swarm‐like earthquakes in the Mogul neighborhood of west Reno, NV, seismicity rates and event magnitudes increased over several days culminating in an M w 4.9 dextral strike‐slip earthquake on 26 April 2008.…
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Late Palaeozoic strike-slip tectonics versus oroclinal bending at the SW outskirts of Baltica: case of the Variscan belt’s eastern end in Poland Open
Geophysical and geological data from the eastern sector of the Central European Variscan belt are presented and reviewed in the regional tectonic context. Matched filtering of isostatic gravity, guided by results of spectral analysis, alon…
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Lithospheric architecture and deformation of NE Tibet: New insights on the interplay of regional tectonic processes Open
GPS measurements indicate rapid lateral extrusion of the NE Tibetan Plateau, which causes active NE-directed crustal shortening and has initiated oblique shearing along the margins of NE Tibet. However, the Tibetan highlands terminate arou…
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Seismotectonics of the Zagros (Iran) From Orogen‐Wide, Calibrated Earthquake Relocations Open
We use calibrated earthquake relocations to reassess the distribution and kinematics of faulting in the Zagros range, southwestern Iran. This is among the most seismically active fold‐and‐thrust belts globally, but knowledge of its active …
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Tracking paleodeformation fields in the Mesozoic central Sierra Nevada arc: Implications for intra-arc cyclic deformation and arc tempos Open
In this study, structures in plutons and host rocks are coupled with geochronology to track paleodeformation fields from the late Paleozoic to Late Cretaceous in the central Sierra Nevada. Regional NW-striking host-rock foliation, NE- or S…
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Timing of deformation in the Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone, Uruguay: Implications for the amalgamation of western Gondwana during the Neoproterozoic Brasiliano‐Pan‐African Orogeny Open
U‐Pb and Hf zircon (sensitive high‐resolution ion microprobe ‐SHRIMP‐ and laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry ‐LA‐ICP‐MS‐), Ar/Ar hornblende and muscovite, and Rb‐Sr whole rock‐muscovite isochron data from the mylon…
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Fault Slip and GPS Velocities Across the Shan Plateau Define a Curved Southwestward Crustal Motion Around the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis Open
Characterizing the 700 km wide system of active faults on the Shan Plateau, southeast of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, is critical to understanding the geodynamics and seismic hazard of the large region that straddles neighboring China, …
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Contemporary crustal movement of southeastern Tibet: Constraints from dense GPS measurements Open
The ongoing collision between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate brings up N-S crustal shortening and thickening of the Tibet Plateau, but its dynamic mechanisms remain controversial yet. As one of the most tectonically active regions…
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Updating active fault maps and sliprates along the Sumatran Fault Zone, Indonesia Open
The accuracy of active fault map, slip rate and its seismic parameters is crucial for seismic hazard analysis. Fault maps, segmentations and slip rates of the Sumatran Fault Zone (SFZ) have been revised in relation with ongoing activities …
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Active Seismotectonic Deformation in Front of the Dolomites Indenter, Eastern Alps Open
We use earthquake focal mechanisms to study present‐day deformation and stress in the western part of the Eastern European Alps. We define the following regions, based on seismicity and kinematically compatible focal mechanism types: (1) t…
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CCAF-DB: the Caribbean and Central American active fault database Open
A database of ∼250 active fault traces in the Caribbean and Central American regions has been assembled to characterize the seismic hazard and tectonics of the area, as part of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation's Caribbean and C…
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Detrital zircons from the Nanaimo basin, Vancouver Island, British Columbia: An independent test of Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic northward translation Open
The development of the Cordilleran orogen of western North American is disputed despite a century of study. Paleomagnetic observations require large‐scale dextral displacements of crustal fragments along the western margin of North America…
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Exhumation history of the western Kyrgyz Tien Shan: Implications for intramontane basin formation Open
The dextral Talas-Fergana Fault separates the western from the central Tien Shan. Recent work has shed light on the Cenozoic evolution of the eastern and central Tien Shan; much less attention has been paid to the western Tien Shan. In thi…
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Glacially induced faulting along the NW segment of the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone, northern Denmark: Implications for neotectonics and Lateglacial fault-bound basin formation Open
The Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone (STZ) is the northwestern segment of the Tornquist Zone and extends from Bornholm across the Baltic Sea and northern Denmark into the North Sea. It represents a major lithospheric structure with a significant …
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Vertical strain partitioning in hot Variscan crust: Syn-convergence escape of the Pyrenees in the Iberian-Armorican syntax Open
A new structural map of the Paleozoic crust of the Pyrenees based on an extensive compilation and new kinematic data allows for the evaluation of the mechanical coupling between the upper and lower crust of the abnormally hot foreland of t…
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Seismotectonics of the eastern Himalayan and indo-burman plate boundary systems Open
The eastern Himalayan and Indo-Burman plate boundary systems are distinct from the rest of the India-Eurasia continental collision, due to oblique convergence across two orthogonal plate boundaries resulting in a zone of distributed deform…
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Focusing of relative plate motion at a continental transform fault: Cenozoic dextral displacement >700 km on New Zealand's Alpine Fault, reversing >225 km of Late Cretaceous sinistral motion Open
The widely accepted ∼450 km Cenozoic dextral strike‐slip displacement on New Zealand's Alpine Fault is large for continental strike‐slip faults, but it is still less than 60% of the Cenozoic relative plate motion between the Australian and…