Continental microplates are enigmatic plate boundary features, which can occur in
extensional and compressional regimes. Here we focus on microplate formation and their …

Complex, time‐dependent, and asymmetric rift geometries are observed throughout the East
African Rift System (EARS) and are well documented, for instance, in the Kenya Rift. To …

The redistribution of past and present ice and ocean loading on Earth's surface causes solid
Earth deformation and geoid changes, known as glacial isostatic adjustment. The …

The nature of the overriding plate plays a major role for subduction zone processes. In
particular, the highly heterogeneous continental lithosphere modulates intra-plate tectonics …

A long-standing problem in solid Earth science is to understand how low-angle normal faults
form, their role in the development of tectonic asymmetry of conjugate margins, and how …

At the Eastern part of the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR), plate divergence is
accommodated by large offset normal faults, also called detachment faults, that exhume …

Glacial isostatic adjustment explains topographic change in formerly and currently glaciated
regions, but the role of small (∼ 100s km) regions of unusually low‐viscosity mantle is …

Fault-propagation folding occurs when a shallow fold is created by an underlying
propagating thrust fault. These structures are common features of fold and thrust belts and …

Around the periphery of the Greenland ice sheet, satellite-based observations of ground
uplift record Earth's response to past and recent unloading of Greenland's ice mass. On the …

Although many collisional orogens form after subduction of oceanic lithosphere between two
continents, some orogens result from strain localization within a continent via inversion of …