Tectonics

Papers
(The TQCC of Tectonics is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Strain Partitioning and Interseismic Fault Behavior Along the Caribbean‐South American Transform Plate Boundary69
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Differential Extrusion of Indochina‐South China Block and Its Interplay With Slab‐Pull Tectonics: Evidence for End‐Oligocene Basin Inversion in the Beibuwan Basin31
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Paleolatitudinal Drift and Major Rotation of the Wrangellia Superterrane in the Mesozoic: A Signal of East‐Panthalassa Plate Motion?30
The Development of Fault Networks at the Termination of Continental Transform Faults When Their Connecting Plate Boundary Is “Misaligned”30
Nature Versus Nurture: Preservation and Destruction of Archean Cratons28
Regional Scale, Fault‐Related Fluid Circulation in the Ionian Zone of the External Hellenides Fold‐And‐Thrust Belt, Western Greece: Clues for Fluid Flow in Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs28
Active Deformation Pattern in the Western Flank of the Central Taurides, Southern Margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau: Inferences From Geomorphic Markers and Kinematic Indicators27
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Effects of Along‐Trench Asymmetric Subduction Initiation on Plate Rotation and Trench Migration: A Laboratory Modeling Perspective23
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Active Structural Geometries and Their Correlation With Moderate (M 5.5‐7.0) Earthquakes in the Jiashi‐Keping Region, Tian Shan Southwestern Front21
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Late Cretaceous Crustal Shortening in the Northern Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex: Constraints on the Structural Geometry and Magnitude of Pre‐Extensional Footwall Burial20
Tectonic Evolution of the Nevado‐Filábride Complex (Sierra de Los Filábres, Southeastern Spain): Insights From New Structural and Geochronological Data20
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The Entire Crust can be Seismogenic: Evidence from Southern Malawi18
Extensional Faulting Around Kolumbo Volcano, Aegean Sea—Relationships Between Local Stress Fields, Fault Relay Ramps, and Volcanism18
Microplate Evolution in the Queen Charlotte Triple Junction & Explorer Region: New Insights From Microseismicity18
Effects of Tectonic Quiescence Between Orogeny and Rifting18
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Development of Foreland Intracratonic Plateaus (Ozark Plateau and Appalachian Plateaus): A Consequence of Topographic Inversion Due To Erosion of Adjacent Fold‐Thrust Belts18
Differential Exhumation of the Eastern Cordillera in the Central Andes: Evidence for South‐Verging Backthrusting (Abancay Deflection, Peru)18
Subsidence and Uplift History of the UAE and the Western Flank of the UAE‐Oman Mountain Range17
Two Phases of Crustal Shortening in Northeastern Tibet as a Result of a Stronger Qaidam Lithosphere During the Cenozoic India–Asia Collision17
Neogene‐Recent Reactivation of Pre‐Existing Faults in South‐Central Vietnam, With Implications for the Extrusion of Indochina17
The Magmatic Rifting of Santos Basin: Aeromagnetic Mapping of Dykes, Terranes and Marginal Structures and the Interplay Between Tectonism and Volcanism17
Assembly and Tectonic Evolution of Continental Lower Crust: Monazite Petrochronology of the Ivrea‐Verbano Zone (Val Strona di Omegna)17
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Exceptional Scarp Preservation in SW Namibia Reveals Geological Controls on Large Magnitude Intraplate Seismicity in Southern Africa17
Pre‐Thrusting Stratigraphic Control on the Transition From a Thin‐Skinned to Thick‐Skinned Structural Style: An Example From the Double‐Decker Idaho‐Montana Fold‐Thrust Belt16
Coseismic and Postseismic Fault Kinematics of the July 22, 2020, Nima (Tibet) Ms6.6 Earthquake: Implications of the Forming Mechanism of the Active N‐S‐Trending Grabens in Qiangtang, Tibet16
Early Cretaceous Provenance, Sediment Dispersal, and Foreland Basin Development in Southwestern Montana, North American Cordillera16
Using Stochastic Point Pattern Analysis to Track Regional Orientations of Magmatism During the Transition to Cenozoic Extension and Rio Grande Rifting, Southern Rocky Mountains16
Building a Young Mountain Range: Insight Into the Growth of the Greater Caucasus Mountains From Detrital Zircon (U‐Th)/He Thermochronology and 10Be Erosion Rates15
Active Back‐Arc Thrust in North West Java, Indonesia15
The Role of the Curved Southern Asian Margin Between the Tarim and Tajik Cratons During the Evolution of the Pamir, Insights From Sandbox Modeling15
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Wide Versus Narrow Back‐Arc Rifting: Control of Subduction Velocity and Convective Back‐Arc Thinning15
Structural Evolution, Exhumation Rates, and Rheology of the European Crust During Alpine Collision: Constraints From the Rotondo Granite—Gotthard Nappe15
Unilateral Magma Emplacement of the Telimbela Batholith in the Central Ecuadorian Arc: Implications for Kinematics of Oblique Subduction of the Farallon‐Nazca Plate15
Provenance Analysis of the Andrée Land Basin and Implications for the Paleogeography of Svalbard in the Devonian15
Quantification and Restoration of the Pre‐Drift Extension Across the NE Atlantic Conjugate Margins During the Mid‐Permian‐Early Cenozoic Multi‐Rifting Phases15
Anomalous Post‐Rift Subsidence in the Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China: Contributions From Mantle Process and Fault Activity15
Kinematic Response of Subaerial Salt Diapirs to Geomorphic, Tectonic and Climatic Regimes: Insights From Space‐Based Observations in the Western Kuqa Fold‐Thrust Belt, NW China14
Kinematic Evolution of the Santa Bárbara System in the Foreland of the Central Andes of Northwestern Argentina (26°S)14
New 40Ar/39Ar Dating and Paleomagnetism of the Pana Formation Rocks From the Linzhou Basin, Lhasa Block: Implications for the India‐Asia Collision14
Structural Inheritance in the Eastern Cordillera, NW Argentina: Low‐Temperature Thermochronology of the Cianzo Basin14
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Late Pleistocene‐Holocene Slip Rates in the Northwestern Zagros Mountains (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) Derived From Luminescence Dating of River Terraces and Structural Modeling14
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Detachment and Transfer Fault Systems in the Northern South China Sea, Insights Into 3D Tectonic Segmentation of Rifted Margins13
The Role of Faults as Barriers in Confined Seismic Sequences: 2021 Seismicity in the Granada Basin (Betic Cordillera)13
Regional and Local Patterns of Upper‐Plate Deformation in Cascadia: The Importance of the Down‐Dip Extent of Locking Relative to Upper‐Plate Strength Contrasts13
3D Structure of Low‐Angle Normal Faults and Tectono‐Sedimentary Processes of Nascent Continental Core‐Complexes in the SE South China Sea13
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Structural Evolution of the Northern Agrio Fold and Trust Belt (∼37°30′S), Neuquén Basin, Argentina, Derived From Low‐Temperature Multi‐Thermochronometry13
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The 2018 Mw7.5 Highlands Earthquake in Papua New Guinea: Implications for Structural Style in an Active Fold and Thrust Belt13
Paleomagnetism of the Peloritan Terrane (NE Sicily): From Greater Iberia to the Neo Apennine‐Maghrebide Arc13
Crustal Structure Across the Central Dead Sea Transform and Surrounding Areas: Insights Into Tectonic Processes in Continental Transforms13
Syn‐Subduction Strike‐Slip Faults Shape an Accretionary Orogen and its Provenance Signatures: Insights From Sikhote‐Alin in NE Asia During the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous13
Post‐Collisional Reorganisation of the Eastern Alps in 4D – Crust and Mantle Structure13
Exhumation of the Ronda Peridotite During Hyper‐Extension: New Structural and Thermal Constraints From the Nieves Unit (Western Betic Cordillera, Spain)12
How Do Rift‐Related Fault Network Distributions Evolve? Quantitative Comparisons Between Natural Fault Observations and 3D Numerical Models of Continental Extension12
Contrasting Styles of Salt‐Tectonic Processes in the Ionian Zone (Greece and Albania): Integrating Surface Geology, Subsurface Data, and Experimental Models12
Prolonged Slip on the South Tibetan Detachment Constrains Tectonic Models for Synorogenic Extension in the Central Himalaya12
Active Faults' Geometry in the Gulf of Aqaba, Southern Dead Sea Fault, Illuminated by Multibeam Bathymetric Data12
Active Deformation Across the Western Anatolian Extensional Province (Türkiye) From Sentinel‐1 InSAR12
Taking the Pulse of Salt‐Detached Gravity Gliding in the Eastern Mediterranean12
Interplay Between Crustal‐Scale Thrusting, High Metamorphic Heating Rates, and the Development of Inverted Thermal‐Metamorphic Gradients: Numerical Models and Examples From the Caledonides of Northern12
Status of Basement Terranes in Orogens: Insights From the Cadomian Domain of the North Armorican Variscides, Western France12
Exhuming an Accretionary Prism: A Case Study of the Kodiak Accretionary Complex, Alaska, USA12
Inheritance of Penetrative Basement Anisotropies by Extension‐Oblique Faults: Insights From Analogue Experiments11
Timing of Contractional Stress Propagation, From the Pyrenean Orogen to the Intraplate Domain, Evidenced by U‐Pb Dating of Syn‐Kinematic Calcite11
Nature, Origin, and Evolution of the Pyrenean‐Cantabrian Junction11
The Dynamics of Forearc – Back‐Arc Basin Subsidence: Numerical Models and Observations From Mediterranean Subduction Zones11
Low‐Temperature Thermochronology for Defining the Tectonic Controls on Heterogeneous Gold Endowment Across the Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China11
Constancy of Geologic and Geodetic Fault Slip Rates Across the Arabia‐Eurasia Collision Revealed Through Two Decades of Observation11
Evidence of Strain Accumulation and Coupling Variation in the Himachal Region of NW Himalaya From Short Term Geodetic Measurements11
Torn Between Two Plates: Exhumation of the Cer Massif (Internal Dinarides) as a Far‐Field Effect of Carpathian Slab Rollback Inferred From 40Ar/39Ar Dating and Cross Section Bala11
Thermochronology of the Western Alps (Pelvoux Massif) Reveals the Longterm Multiphase Tectonic History of the European Paleomargin11
Along‐Strike Variation in the Initiation Timing of the North‐Trending Rifts in Southern Tibet as Revealed From the Yadong‐Gulu Rift11
The Limpopo Magma‐Rich Transform Margin, South Mozambique – 2: Implications for the Gondwana Breakup11
Shale 3D Flow and Interaction With Basement Faults in the Niger Delta Deep‐Water Fold and Thrust Belt11
The Late Mesozoic Intracontinental contraction–Extension Transition in the Beishan Fold‐Thrust Belt, Central Asia: Constraints From Structural Analysis and Apatite (U–Th)/He Thermochronology11
A Newly Identified “Proto‐Kenting Mélange (S. Taiwan)” Represents a Missing Link for a Continuous Early Cretaceous Paleo–Pacific Subduction–Accretion System11
Out‐of‐Sequence Backthrusting Since the Middle Pleistocene Revealed by the Jiangnanmiao Thrust Fault Along the Northern Tian Shan, China11
Syn‐Orogenic Exhumation of High‐P Units by Upward Extrusion in an Accretionary Wedge: Insights From the Eastern Elba Nappe Stack (Northern Apennines, Italy)11
Quaternary E‐W Extension Uplifts Kythira Island and Segments the Hellenic Arc10
Jurassic Evolution of the Dunhuang Basin and Its Implications for the Early History of the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northeast Tibet Plateau10
Slowing Convergence Controls on Orogeny: A Three‐Stage Evolution of the Cenozoic India‐Asia Collision10
Slab Folding and Surface Deformation of the Iran Mobile Belt10
Early Neoproterozoic Accretion at the Northern Margin of the Chottanagpur Gneiss Complex, Eastern India10
Control of the Shift in Subduction Direction on Upper Plate Tectonic Extension and Gold Mineralization: A Case Study From the Early Cretaceous Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China10
The Timing of Collision Between Asia and the West Burma Terrane, and the Development of the Indo‐Burman Ranges10
Morpho‐Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Apennines and Calabrian Arc: Insights From Pollino Range and Surrounding Extensional Intermontane Basins10
Coupling of Tectonics, Climate, and Lithology in Orogenic Systems: Insights From Cosmogenic 10Be Erosion Rates and River Profile Inversion Modeling in the Talesh Mountains, NW Iranian Plate10
S wave Velocity Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Shanxi Rift, Central North China Craton and its Tectonic Implications10
Reconstructing the Iberian Salt‐Bearing Rifted Margin of the Southern Pyrenees: Insights From the Organyà Basin10
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Mature Diffuse Tectonic Block Boundary Revealed by the 2020 Southwestern Puerto Rico Seismic Sequence10
The Role of Temperature in the Along‐Margin Distribution of Volcanism and Seismicity in Subduction Zones: Insights From 3‐D Thermomechanical Modeling of the Central Andean Margin9
3‐D Deep Electrical Resistivity Tomography of the Major Basin Related to the 2016 Mw6.5 Central Italy Earthquake Fault9
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Slip Distribution Along the Chenghai Fault From Airborne LiDAR and Tectonic Implications for the 1515 Yongsheng Earthquake, China9
40Ar/39Ar Age Constraints on HP/LT Metamorphism in Extensively Overprinted Units: The Example of the Alpujárride Subduction Complex (Betic Cordillera, Spain)9
Exhumation of the Coastal Metamorphic Belt Above the Subduction‐to‐Transform Transition, in the Southeast Caribbean Plate Corner9
3D Geophysical and Geological Modeling of the South Orkney Microcontinent (Antarctica): Tectonic Implications for the Scotia Arc Development9
Active Shortening Simultaneous to Normal Faulting Based on GNSS, Geophysical, and Geological Data: The Seismogenic Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain)9
Age, Kinematic and Thermal Constraints of Syn‐Orogenic Low‐Temperature Deformation Events: Insights From Thermochronology and Structural Data of the Nekézseny Thrust (Alpine‐Carpathian‐Dinaric Area)9
Crustal‐Scale Seismic Reflection Profiling Constrains How the Paleo‐Asian Ocean Was Closed9
Continent‐Ocean Transition or Boundary? Crowd‐Sourced Seismic Interpretations of the East‐India Passive Margin9
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High‐ and Low‐Angle Normal Fault Activity in a Collisional Orogen: The Northeastern Granada Basin (Betic Cordillera)9
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Dating Strike‐Slip Ductile Shear Through Combined Zircon‐, Titanite‐ and Apatite U–Pb Geochronology Along the Southern Tan‐Lu Fault Zone, East China9
Basal Décollement Splaying Induces Mid‐Crustal Tectonic Imbrication in an Intracontinental Orogen9
Building and Collapse of the Cadomian Orogen: A Plate‐Scale Model Based on Structural Data From the SW Iberian Massif9
Investigating Strike‐Slip Faulting Parallel to the Icelandic Plate Boundary Using Boundary Element Models9
Sediment Recycling and the Evolution of Analog Orogenic Wedges9
Long‐Lived (180 Myr) Ductile Flow Within the Great Slave Lake Shear Zone9
Joint‐Rupture Pattern and Newly Generated Structure of Fault Intersections on the Northern Margin of the Linhe Basin, Northwestern Ordos Block, China9
A Deformed Wedge‐Top Basin Inverted During the Collapse of the Variscan Belt: The Permo‐Carboniferous Lorraine Basin (NE France)9
Serpentinization and Magmatic Distribution in a Hyperextended Rift Suture: Implication for Natural Hydrogen Exploration (Mauléon Basin, Pyrenees)8
Transition From Late‐Miocene Syn‐Orogenic Extension to Plio‐Pleistocene Corinth Rifting in the Southern Hellenides, Northern Peloponnese, Greece8
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The Paleogeography of Laurentia in Its Early Years: New Constraints From the Paleoproterozoic East‐Central Minnesota Batholith8
Segmentation and Holocene Behavior of the Middle Strand of the North Anatolian Fault (NW Turkey)8
Modeling Lithospheric Thickness Along the Conjugate South Atlantic Passive Margins Implies Asymmetric Rift Initiation8
Exploring the Connection of XVI‐Century Major Historical Earthquakes in the Eastern Betic Cordillera, Spain: Insights From Viscoelastic Relaxation of the Lithosphere8
Crustal Structure of the Northeast South China Sea Rifted Margin8
Dating Low‐Grade Deformation: Role of Lithology and Strain Partitioning on Ar Isotope Records in the Alpi Apuane of Northern Apennines (Italy)8
Geometry and Kinematics of Bivergent Extension in the Southern Cycladic Archipelago: Constraining an Extensional Hinge Zone on Sikinos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece8
Multiphase Topographic and Thermal Histories of the Wallowa and Elkhorn Mountains, Blue Mountains Province, Oregon, USA8
The Flores Thrust and Its Interplay With Volcanism8
The Merluza Graben: How a Failed Spreading Center Influenced Margin Structure, and Salt Deposition and Tectonics in the Santos Basin, Brazil8
Classification and Semiquantitative Evaluation of Paleoearthquake Identification From Trenches on Normal Faults: A Case Study of Holocene Paleoearthquake Events From the Northern Margin of the Hetao B8
Block Rotations in NW Iran in Response to the Arabia‐Eurasia Collision Constrained by Paleomagnetism8
Time Constraints on the Late Cenozoic Fault Evolution Along the Northern Margin of the Iranian Plateau in the Arabia‐Eurasia Collision Zone8
Lower and Upper Plate Controls on Crustal Seismicity in the Southern Central and Patagonian Andes8
Mechanical Stratigraphy Controls Normal Fault Growth and Dimensions, Outer Kwanza Basin, Offshore Angola8
Tectonic Growth of the Late Paleozoic‐Middle Mesozoic Northwestern Margin of Laurentia and Implications for the Farewell Terrane: Stratigraphic, Structural, and Provenance Records From the Central Ala8
The Neoproterozoic Mozambique Belt in the Gol Mountains (N Tanzania): Structural Analysis of Amphibolite and Granulite‐Facies Nappe Tectonites From a Crustal Orogenic Channel8
Strain Partitioning Within Bending Orogens, New Insights From the Variscan Belt (Chiroulet‐Lesponne Domes, Pyrenees)8
Protracted Thermal Evolution of a Migmatitic Terrane as Revealed by Multiple Geochronometers From the Retro‐Arc of the Early Paleozoic Famatinian Orogen in NW Argentina8
Exploring Uplift Mechanisms Across the Forearc of a Subduction System: Karpathos Island as a Natural Transect Across the Eastern Hellenic Margin8
Cenozoic Tectono‐Geomorphologic Evolution of the Pamir‐Tian Shan Convergence Zone: Evidence From Detrital Zircon U‐Pb Provenance Analyses7
Comment on “Tectonics of the Isua Supracrustal Belt 1: P‐T‐X‐d Constraints of a Poly‐Metamorphic Terrane” by A. Ramírez‐Salazar et al. and “Tectonics of the Isua Supracrustal Belt 2: Microstructures R7
A 3D Snapshot of Crustal Breakup Deduced From Seismic Analysis of the Tip of the NW South China Sea7
Reconstructing Jurassic‐Cretaceous Intra‐Oceanic Subduction Evolution in the Northwestern Panthalassa Ocean Using Ocean Plate Stratigraphy From Hokkaido, Japan7
Phanerozoic Record of Northern Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic, Resolved Through 40Ar/39Ar and (U‐Th)/He Geochronology7
Assessing the Internal Uppermost Crustal Structure of the Central Pyrenees by Gravity‐Constrained Cross Sections7
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Defining the Timing, Extent, and Conditions of Paleozoic Metamorphism in the Southern Appalachian Blue Ridge Terranes of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Northern Georgia7
Low‐Temperature Thermochronological Perspective on Geodynamic Evolution of the Cathaysia Block Since Early Mesozoic7
Multi‐Stage Growth in the North Margin of the Qinling Orogen, Central China, Revealed by Both Low‐Temperature Thermochronology and River Profile Inversion7
An Evolving Lithospheric‐Scale Wrench Fault System Along the Eastern End of the Altyn Tagh Fault: Kinematics and Quaternary Activity of the Heishan Fault System, Western China7
Holocene Slip Rate Along the Beng Co Fault and Dextral Strike‐Slip Extrusion of Central Eastern Tibet7
Beveling the Colorado Plateau: Early Mesozoic Rift‐Related Flexure Explains Erosion and Anomalous Deposition in the Southern Cordilleran Foreland Basin7
Fault Networks in Triaxial Tectonic Settings: Analog Modeling of Distributed Continental Extension With Lateral Shortening7
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Convergence Velocity Controls on the Structural Evolution of Orogens7
Evidence for an Imbricated Lower Crust and Its Role in Accommodating Crustal Shortening in Sikkim Himalaya7
Subduction, Underplating, and Return Flow Recorded in the Cycladic Blueschist Unit Exposed on Syros, Greece7
Oligocene/Early Miocene E/W‐Shortening in the Oman Mountains Related to Oblique Arabia‐India Convergence7
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Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Paleogene Syn‐Rift Sediments in Central‐Southern Palawan: Paleogeographic Significance for the South China Margin7
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Cretaceous Crust in the Scotia Sea: Missing Pieces in a Geological Puzzle?7
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