New maps of global geological provinces and tectonic plates

D Hasterok, JA Halpin, AS Collins, M Hand… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are important for
analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and developing compositional …

Geologically current plate motions

C DeMets, RG Gordon, DF Argus - Geophysical journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We describe best-fitting angular velocities and MORVEL, a new closure-enforced set of
angular velocities for the geologically current motions of 25 tectonic plates that collectively …

Kinematics of the Western Africa-Eurasia plate boundary from focal mechanisms and GPS data

E Serpelloni, G Vannucci, S Pondrelli… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Western Mediterranean displays a complex pattern of crustal deformation
distributed along tectonically active belts developed in the framework of slow oblique plate …

[图书][B] Volcano-tectonic processes

V Acocella - 2021 - Springer
Among the various university courses I took for my geoscience degree, volcanology and
structural geology motivated me by far the most. Volcanoes and deformed rocks are indeed …

Emergence and evolution of Santa Maria Island (Azores)—The conundrum of uplifted islands revisited

RS Ramalho, G Helffrich, J Madeira, M Cosca… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The growth and decay of ocean-island volcanoes are intrinsically linked to vertical
movements. While the causes for subsidence are better understood, uplift mechanisms …

Is the 'Azores hotspot'a wetspot? Insights from the geochemistry of fluid and melt inclusions in olivine of Pico basalts

N Métrich, V Zanon, L Créon, A Hildenbrand… - Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The concept of an 'Azores mantle plume'has been widely debated, and the existence of an
Azores hotspot questioned. In an effort to shed new light on this controversy, we present He …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial variations of stochastic noise properties in GPS time series

X He, MS Bos, JP Montillet, R Fernandes, T Melbourne… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The noise in position time series of 568 GPS (Global Position System) stations across North
America with an observation span of ten years has been investigated using solutions from …

GPS and tectonic evidence for a diffuse plate boundary at the Azores Triple Junction

FO Marques, JC Catalão, C DeMets, ACG Costa… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We use GPS, bathymetric/structural, and seismic data to define the pattern of present
deformation along the northern half of the Azores plateau, where the Nubia–Eurasia plate …

Imaging active faulting in a region of distributed deformation from the joint clustering of focal mechanisms and hypocentres: Application to the Azores–western …

S Custódio, V Lima, D Vales, S Cesca, F Carrilho - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
The matching between linear trends of hypocentres and fault planes indicated by focal
mechanisms (FMs) is frequently used to infer the location and geometry of active faults. This …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of assimilating GPS precipitable water vapor in convective-permitting WRF-ARW on North American Monsoon precipitation forecasts over …

CB Risanto, CL Castro, AF Arellano… - Monthly Weather …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Impact of Assimilating GPS Precipitable Water Vapor in Convective-Permitting WRF-ARW on
North American Monsoon Precipitation Forecasts over Northwest Mexico in: Monthly Weather …