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

G Schepers, DJJ Van Hinsbergen, W Spakman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
At two trench segments below the Andes, the Nazca Plate is subducting sub-horizontally
over∼ 200–300 km, thought to result from a combination of buoyant oceanic-plateau …

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) analysis of the Gonjo Basin as an independent constraint to date Tibetan shortening pulses

S Li, DJJ van Hinsbergen, Z Shen… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau accommodated major upper crustal shortening during Indian
Plate oceanic and continental lithosphere subduction. Deciphering whether shortening was …

Kinematics of a former oceanic plate of the Neotethys revealed by deformation in the Ulukışla basin (Turkey)

D Gürer, DJJ van Hinsbergen, L Matenco, F Corfu… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Kinematic reconstruction of modern ocean basins shows that since Pangea breakup a vast
area in the Neotethyan realm was lost to subduction. Here we develop a first‐order …

Magnetic fabric constraints on the Cenozoic compressional strain changes in the northern Qaidam marginal thrust belt and their tectonic implications

B Li, M Yan, W Zhang, JM Parés, X Fang, Y Yang… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing the compressional strain history of the northern Qaidam marginal thrust belt
has significant implications for understanding the mountain building processes of the …

Contrasted East Asia and South America tectonics driven by deep mantle flow

T Yang, L Moresi, M Gurnis, S Liu, D Sandiford… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract East Asia and South America have both experienced long-term subduction since at
least the Jurassic, but they have had contrasting tectonic evolutions since the Late …

The relation between Neogene denudation of the Southernmost Andes and sedimentation in the offshore Argentine and Malvinas Basins during the opening of the …

MC Ghiglione, C Sue, ME Ramos, JE Tobal… - … Evolution of the …, 2016 - Springer
The Neogene orogenic growth of the Southern Patagonian Andes has been related to the
approximation and collision of a series of segments of the Chile seismic ridge, which …

Campanian-Eocene dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy in the Southern Andean foreland basin: Implications for Drake Passage throughflow

PK Bijl, GR Guerstein, EA Sanmiguel Jaimes, A Sluijs… - 2021 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The tectonic opening of the Tasmanian Gateway and Drake Passage represented crucial
geographic requirements for the Cenozoic development of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current …

A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cretaceous marine to continental transition in the northern Austral-Magallanes basin and its geodynamic significance

I Aramendía, ME Ramos, S Geuna, JI Cuitiño… - Journal of South …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sedimentologic studies together with preliminary anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS)
analysis were carried out in a very particular and intriguing Lower Cretaceous depocenter in …

Slip rates along the narrow Magallanes fault System, tierra Del fuego Region, patagonia

FB Sandoval, GP De Pascale - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The up to 1000 km-long Magallanes Fault System (MFS) is the southernmost onshore strike-
slip plate boundary and located between the South American and Scotia Plates. Slip-rates, a …

Early Cretaceous ophiolites of the Yarlung Zangbo suture zone: Insights from dolerites and peridotites from the Baer upper mantle suite, SW Tibet (China)

H Zheng, Q Huang, A Kapsiotis, B Xia… - International Geology …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The Baer ophiolitic massif is located in the northern sub-belt of the western segment of the
Yarlung Zangbo Suture Zone (YZSZ) and mainly consists of a lherzolite-dominant mantle …