Tectonics

Papers
(The TQCC of Tectonics is 8. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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New 40Ar/39Ar Dating and Paleomagnetism of the Pana Formation Rocks From the Linzhou Basin, Lhasa Block: Implications for the India‐Asia Collision41
Detachment and Transfer Fault Systems in the Northern South China Sea, Insights Into 3D Tectonic Segmentation of Rifted Margins39
Kinematic Evolution of the Santa Bárbara System in the Foreland of the Central Andes of Northwestern Argentina (26°S)32
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Provenance Analysis of the Andrée Land Basin and Implications for the Paleogeography of Svalbard in the Devonian28
Jurassic Evolution of the Dunhuang Basin and Its Implications for the Early History of the Altyn Tagh Fault, Northeast Tibet Plateau28
Along‐Strike Variation in the Initiation Timing of the North‐Trending Rifts in Southern Tibet as Revealed From the Yadong‐Gulu Rift26
Wide Versus Narrow Back‐Arc Rifting: Control of Subduction Velocity and Convective Back‐Arc Thinning25
Paleolatitudinal Drift and Major Rotation of the Wrangellia Superterrane in the Mesozoic: A Signal of East‐Panthalassa Plate Motion?24
Differential Extrusion of Indochina‐South China Block and Its Interplay With Slab‐Pull Tectonics: Evidence for End‐Oligocene Basin Inversion in the Beibuwan Basin24
A Newly Identified “Proto‐Kenting Mélange (S. Taiwan)” Represents a Missing Link for a Continuous Early Cretaceous Paleo–Pacific Subduction–Accretion System24
Reconstructing the Iberian Salt‐Bearing Rifted Margin of the Southern Pyrenees: Insights From the Organyà Basin23
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Slip Distribution Along the Chenghai Fault From Airborne LiDAR and Tectonic Implications for the 1515 Yongsheng Earthquake, China21
Dating Low‐Grade Deformation: Role of Lithology and Strain Partitioning on Ar Isotope Records in the Alpi Apuane of Northern Apennines (Italy)21
Surface Uplift and Topographic Rejuvenation of a Tectonically Inactive Range: Insights From the Anti‐Atlas and the Siroua Massif (Morocco)20
Oligocene/Early Miocene E/W‐Shortening in the Oman Mountains Related to Oblique Arabia‐India Convergence19
Late Miocene Exhumation of the Western Cordillera, Ecuador, Driven by Increased Coupling Between the Subducting Carnegie Ridge and the South American Continent19
Multi‐Stage Growth in the North Margin of the Qinling Orogen, Central China, Revealed by Both Low‐Temperature Thermochronology and River Profile Inversion19
Crustal Stresses in the East Arctic Region From New Data on Earthquake Focal Mechanisms19
Discovery of the William's Ridge and Rig Seismic Seamount Microcontinents, Kerguelen Plateau: Signatures of a Fragmented Rifted Margin18
Miocene Construction of the High Andes Recorded by Exhumation of the Frontal Cordillera, La Ramada Massif of Western Argentina (32°S)18
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One Billion Years of Stability in the North American Midcontinent Following Two‐Stage Grenvillian Structural Inversion18
Magmatic, Metamorphic and Structural History of the Variscan Lizard Ophiolite and Metamorphic Sole, Cornwall, UK17
Structural Architecture and Attenuation of the Ductile Lower Plate of the Ruby Mountain‐East Humboldt Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Northeast Nevada17
Active Shortening Simultaneous to Normal Faulting Based on GNSS, Geophysical, and Geological Data: The Seismogenic Ventas de Zafarraya Fault (Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain)17
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Suture Reactivation, Slip Partitioning, and a Protracted Strike‐Slip Rate Gradient in the Denali Fault System, Southern Alaska, USA17
Time Constraints on the Late Cenozoic Fault Evolution Along the Northern Margin of the Iranian Plateau in the Arabia‐Eurasia Collision Zone17
Eocene to Quaternary Deformation of the Southern Puna Plateau: Thermochronology, Geochronology, and Structural Geology of an Andean Hinterland Basin (NW Argentina)17
Basal Décollement Splaying Induces Mid‐Crustal Tectonic Imbrication in an Intracontinental Orogen17
Segmentation of the Apenninic Margin of the Tyrrhenian Back‐Arc Basin Forced by the Subduction of an Inherited Transform System16
Decoding the Link Between Magmatic Cyclicity and Episodic Variation of Tectonics and Crustal Thickness in the Overriding Plate16
Cretaceous Evolution of the Northeastern Asian Continent: Insights From the Pikou Strike‐Slip Fault Zone of the Liaodong Peninsula, NE China16
Quantifying the Structure and Extension Rate of the Linfen Basin, Shanxi Rift System Since the Latest Miocene: Implications for Continental Magma‐Poor Rifting16
The 3D Crustal Structure in the Epicentral Region of the 1980, Mw 6.9, Southern Apennines Earthquake (Southern Italy): New Constraints From the Integration of Seismic Exploration Dat16
Fast Liquiñe‐Ofqui Fault Slip Rates and Rapid Uplift Above the Subducted Chile Ridge16
Initiation of Continental Rifting by Flexure Over a Density Anomaly16
Late Cretaceous to Late Eocene Exhumation in the Nima Area, Central Tibet: Implications for Development of Low Relief Topography of the Tibetan Plateau16
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Active Fault Interaction in the Eastern Betic Cordillera: A Model of Coseismic and Postseismic Stress Transfer Following Historical Earthquakes in SE Spain16
Tectono‐Geomorphic Features Related to the 1606 Jianshui Earthquake in the Southernmost Segment of the Xiaojiang Fault System, SE Tibet15
The Influence of Basement Terranes on Tectonic Deformation: Joint Earthquake Travel‐Time and Ambient Noise Tomography of the Southern South Island, New Zealand15
Lower Crustal Rheology Controls Strain Partitioning and Mode of Intracontinental Deformation15
Consequences of Continental Core Complexes on Rifting Patterns: Insights From Multichannel Seismic Data From the Northern Margin of the South China Sea15
Differential Uplift Triggered Basin‐And‐Range System: Evidence From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology in Eastern NE Asia14
Crustal‐Scale Duplex Development During Accretion of the Jiuxi Foreland Basin, North Qilian Shan14
Geophysical Evidence for Magmatism Southwest of the Brothers Islands, Northern Red Sea (Offshore Quseir, Egypt)14
Deformation and Sedimentary Responses to Top‐to‐North Shear Along the Range Front of the Big Bend of the Ailao Shan–Red River Shear Zone, SE Edge of the Tibetan Plateau, and Its Tectonic Implications14
Earthquake Relocations Delineate a Discrete Fault Network and Deformation Corridor Throughout Southeast Alaska and Southwest Yukon14
Refined Tectonic Evolution of the Betic‐Rif Orogen Through Integrated 3‐D Microstructural Analysis and Sm‐Nd Dating of Garnet Porphyroblasts14
Reinterpretation of Marine Magnetic Anomalies in the Bay of Bengal: Implications for Plate Tectonics During the Mid‐Cretaceous13
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Constraining Displacement Magnitude on Crustal‐Scale Extensional Faults Using Thermochronology Combined With Flexural‐Kinematic and Thermal‐Kinematic Modeling: An Example From the Teton Fault, Wyoming13
The Effect of Brittle‐Ductile Weakening on the Formation of Faulting Patterns at Mid‐Ocean Ridges13
Building the Albanides by Deep Underplating13
Slip Distribution and Footwall Topography of the Yanggao‐Tianzhen Fault (Northern Shanxi Graben): Implications for the Along‐Strike Variations in Fault Activity and Regional Deformation13
Slab Tear of Subducted Indian Lithosphere Beneath the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis Region13
Salt Diapirs and Minibasins Along a Transect Across the Basque‐Cantabrian Pyrenees: Implications for Cover‐Basement Interaction During Rifting and Inversion13
The Tectono‐Thermal Evolution of Western Norway – New Insights From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology13
Reconnaissance Basement Geology and Tectonics of North Zealandia13
Breaking the Ring of Fire: How Ridge Collision, Slab Age, and Convergence Rate Narrowed and Terminated the Antarctic Continental Arc13
A Quintessential Strike‐Slip Contractional Duplex: Deciphering the Geometric Kinematics of the Elashan Fault, NE Margin of Tibetan Plateau, China13
Thermochronological Evidence for Eocene Deformation in the Southern Patagonian Andes: Linking Orogenesis Along the Patagonian Orocline12
Repeated Structural Reworking in the Basement of the Central Colombian Andes Unraveled by a Multi‐Chronometric Approach12
Paleomagnetic Study of the Late Miocene Volcanic Sequence in Sonora, Mexico: Clockwise Vertical Axis Rotation Related to the Oblique Rifting in the Pacific‐North American Plate Boundary12
Assessing the Rotation and Segmentation of the Porcupine Bank, Irish Atlantic Margin, During Oblique Rifting Using Deformable Plate Reconstruction12
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A Reappraisal of Nappe Structures and Strain Patterns in the Core of the Variscan Orogen (French Massif Central)12
The Limpopo Magma‐Rich Transform Margin, South Mozambique: 1. Insights From Deep‐Structure Seismic Imaging12
Shattered Veins Elucidate Brittle Creep Processes in the Deep Slow Slip and Tremor Region12
Tectono‐Stratigraphic Insights on the Dynamics of a Complex Subduction Zone, Northern Peruvian Forearc12
Superimposed Deformation of Sub‐Salt Rift Basins in Fold‐Thrust Belts: Insights From Analog Modeling12
New Constraints on the Late Oligocene‐Miocene Thermo‐Tectonic Evolution of the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology12
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Late Oligocene–Early Miocene Detachment Faulting in Crystalline Basement, Mecca Hills, CA, Documented With Zircon (U–Th)/He Date‐eU‐Visual Radiation Damage Patterns12
Quantification of Pacific Plate Hotspot Tracks Since 80 Ma12
Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene Magnetostratigraphy of the Longmenshan Foreland Basin and Its Implications for the Tectonic Deformation of the Longmenshan Fault Zone12
Boundary Effects of Orogenic Plateaus in the Evolution of the Stress Field: The Southern Puna Study Case (26°30′–27°30′S)12
Episodic Long‐Term Exhumation of the Tianshan Orogenic Belt: New Insights From Multiple Low‐Temperature Thermochronometers12
Diachronous Quaternary Development of the Jiayuguan Fault and Implications for Strain Compartmentalization and Modern Earthquake Hazards in the NW Hexi Corridor, China12
Exhumation of the Ronda Peridotite During Hyper‐Extension: New Structural and Thermal Constraints From the Nieves Unit (Western Betic Cordillera, Spain)11
Southwestern Tian Shan: 1. Deformation of Cenozoic Intra‐Montane Basins and Intervening Basement Ranges in Front of the Indian Mantle Indenter11
Present‐Day Caribbean‐North American Oblique Convergence Through the Ocoa‐Bonao‐La Guacara Fault Zone, Southern Central Hispaniola: A Transition Zone Between Oceanic Subduction and Arc‐Oceanic Plateau11
The Kyrenia Terrane (Northern Cyprus): Detrital Zircon Evidence for Exotic Elements in the Southern Neotethys11
Lithosphere Architecture Along the Axis of the Subducting Aseismic Nazca Ridge (Peruvian Active Margin)11
Relating Quartz Crystallographic Preferred Orientation Intensity to Finite Strain Magnitude in the Northern Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Nevada: A New Tool for Characterizing Strain Patterns 11
The Onset of Gondwanide Orogeny in Eastern Australia: Insight From the Provenance of Syn‐Orogenic Strata in the New England Orogen (Australia)11
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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 Modeling11
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, Tibet11
Metamorphic Domes in Northern Tunisia: Exhuming the Roots of Nappe Belts by Widespread Post‐Subduction Delamination in the Western Mediterranean11
U‐Pb Zircon Geochronology From the Northern Cordillera, Central Yukon, With Implications for Its Tectonic Assembly11
Detachment Faulting and Mantle Exhumation Beneath an Allochthonous Carbonate Cover: Insights From the Gouffre Georges (Lherz Massif, Pyrenees, France)11
Estimation of the Slip Rate Along the Unruptured Fault Segment of the M7.2 1896 Rikuu Earthquake, Northeast Japan11
Spatial Slip Rate Distribution Along the SE Xianshuihe Fault, Eastern Tibet, and Earthquake Hazard Assessment11
Structural Evolution, Exhumation Rates, and Rheology of the European Crust During Alpine Collision: Constraints From the Rotondo Granite—Gotthard Nappe11
Thermochronology of the Western Alps (Pelvoux Massif) Reveals the Longterm Multiphase Tectonic History of the European Paleomargin11
Reverse Faulting Within a Continental Plate Boundary Transform System11
Crustal‐Scale Disharmonic Structural Pattern of West Junggar: Unveiling a Permian Indentation of Junggar Block Into Northern Kazakhstan Orocline11
Cold Tectonics of Kos, Central Dodecanese: Oligocene Bivergent Extension of the Pelagonian Domain11
Erosion‐Driven Isostatic Flow and Crustal Diapirism: Analytical and Numerical Models With Implications for the Evolution of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis, Southern Tibet11
Caribbean Plate Boundaries Control on the Tectonic Duality in the Back‐Arc of the Lesser Antilles Subduction Zone During the Eocene11
Development of Foreland Intracratonic Plateaus (Ozark Plateau and Appalachian Plateaus): A Consequence of Topographic Inversion Due To Erosion of Adjacent Fold‐Thrust Belts10
Prolonged Slip on the South Tibetan Detachment Constrains Tectonic Models for Synorogenic Extension in the Central Himalaya10
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Low‐Temperature Thermochronology for Defining the Tectonic Controls on Heterogeneous Gold Endowment Across the Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China10
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 B10
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Paleomagnetism of the Peloritan Terrane (NE Sicily): From Greater Iberia to the Neo Apennine‐Maghrebide Arc10
Evidence of Strain Accumulation and Coupling Variation in the Himachal Region of NW Himalaya From Short Term Geodetic Measurements10
Assembly and Tectonic Evolution of Continental Lower Crust: Monazite Petrochronology of the Ivrea‐Verbano Zone (Val Strona di Omegna)10
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Crustal‐Scale Seismic Reflection Profiling Constrains How the Paleo‐Asian Ocean Was Closed10
Two Phases of Crustal Shortening in Northeastern Tibet as a Result of a Stronger Qaidam Lithosphere During the Cenozoic India–Asia Collision10
Exhuming an Accretionary Prism: A Case Study of the Kodiak Accretionary Complex, Alaska, USA10
The Magmatic Rifting of Santos Basin: Aeromagnetic Mapping of Dykes, Terranes and Marginal Structures and the Interplay Between Tectonism and Volcanism10
Active Structural Geometries and Their Correlation With Moderate (M 5.5‐7.0) Earthquakes in the Jiashi‐Keping Region, Tian Shan Southwestern Front10
From Left Slip to Transpression: Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of the North Altyn Fault, NW Margin of the Tibetan Plateau10
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 China10
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Controls on the Geometry and Evolution of Salt Tectonic Structures Along Salt‐Bearing Passive Margins9
Structural and Geochronological Constraints on the Collision Between the Chinese Altai and the West Junggar in Central Asia: Implication for Deformation Response and Geodynamic Evolution of Arc‐Arc Co9
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Lake Level Changes and Holocene Extension Rate Across the NS‐Trending Peiku Co‐Gyirong Faults, Southern Tibet9
Cenozoic Crustal Shortening and Structural Transition in the NW Yunnan Basin Region, SE Tibetan Plateau9
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Tectonic Stresses During the High Atlas Cenozoic Basin Inversion: Impact of Plate Kinematics and Structural Inheritance9
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Mid‐Cretaceous Exhumation of the Central Qiangtang Mountain Range Metamorphic Rocks as Evidenced by the Abushan Continental Redbeds9
Multiple Reactivations of the Rennick Graben Fault System (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): New Evidence From Paleostress Analysis9
Insights of Active Extension Within a Collisional Orogen From GNSS (Central Betic Cordillera, S Spain)9
Limited Northward Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau in the Late Cenozoic: Insights From the Cherchen Fault in the Southeastern Tarim Basin9
Cenozoic Kinematic Evolution of the Northern Tibetan Plateau: Implication for the Tectonic Setting of Deep Brines Mineralization in the Southwestern Qaidam Basin9
Active Faulting in the Southern Bole Basin Within the Northern Tian Shan and Implications for Strong Earthquake Hazards and Tectonic Deformation, NW China9
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Timing, Thrusting Mode, and Negative Inversion Along the Circeo Thrust, Apennines, Italy: How the Accretion‐To‐Extension Transition Operated During Slab Rollback9
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Middle Miocene Onset of the Litang Fault System Records Kinematic Change in Eastern Tibet9
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Investigating the Last Millennium Coulomb Stress Transfer in the Central Apennine Fault System (CAFS)9
Direct Evidence for Dextral Shearing in the Shanxi Graben System: Geologic and Geomorphologic Constraints From the North Liulengshan Fault9
Evolution of Arc‐Continent Collision in the Southeastern Margin of the South China Sea: Insight From the Isugod Basin in Central‐Southern Palawan8
Thermo‐Kinematic Constraints on Restoration of the Eastern Sichuan Fold‐And‐Thrust Belt, South China8
Continental Deep Subduction Versus Subduction Cessation: The Fate of Collisional Orogens8
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On the Timescales of Border Fault Growth: Pleistocene Slip Acceleration and Lateral Border Fault Propagation in the Lower Shire Graben, East Africa8
Exhumation of an Ultrahigh‐Pressure Slice From the Upper Plate of the Caledonian Orogen—A Record From Titanite in North‐East Greenland8
The Manantiales Basin, Southern Central Andes (∼32°S), Preserves a Record of Late Eocene–Miocene Episodic Growth of an East‐Vergent Orogenic Wedge8
Active Crustal Deformation Across a Nucleating Extensional Microplate, D. R. Congo, East Africa8
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The Initiation and Growth of Transpressional Shear Zones Through Continental Arc Lithosphere, Southwest New Zealand8
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Devonian to Early Carboniferous Retreating—Advancing Subduction Switch in the Northwestern Patagonia Accretionary Orogen: U‐Pb and Lu‐Hf Isotopic Insights8
Strain Localization Patterns and Thrust Propagation in 3‐D Discrete Element Method (DEM) Models of Accretionary Wedges8
The Thinnest Crust in South China Associated With the Cretaceous Lithospheric Extension: Evidence From SINOPROBE Seismic Reflection Profiling8
Polarity and Timing of the Deformation Along the Jinsha Suture Zone (Yushu Area, Northeastern Tibet)8
Vertical Deformation Along a Strike‐Slip Plate Boundary: The Uplifted Marine Terraces of the Gulf of Aqaba and Tiran Island, at the Southern End of the Dead Sea Fault8
Deep Structure of Siletzia in the Puget Lowland: Imaging an Obducted Plateau and Accretionary Thrust Belt With Potential Fields8
The Tectonostratigraphic Expression of Slab Breakoff in Foreland Basins: Insights From 2D Forward Stratigraphic Modeling8
Deformation Sequence and Paleofluids in Carbonate Buckle Folds Under Transpression (Pag Anticline, External Dinarides, Croatia)8
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Detrital Zircon Age Constraints on the Evolution of Paleo‐Tethys in NE Iran: Implications for Subduction and Collision Tectonics8
Late Triassic to Jurassic Magmatic and Tectonic Evolution of the Intermontane Terranes in Yukon, Northern Canadian Cordillera: Transition From Arc to Syn‐Collisional Magmatism and Post‐Collisional Lit8
Sedimentological Evidence for Pre‐Early Permian Continental Subduction in the Dabie Orogen, Central‐East China8
Localization of Deformation in a Non‐Collisional Subduction Orogen: The Roles of Dip Geometry and Plate Strength on the Evolution of the Broken Andean Foreland, Sierras Pampeanas, Argentina8
Deciphering Permanent Uplift Along the Pacific Coast of South America Through Signal Analysis of Various Tectonic Processes8
Late‐Syn‐ to Post‐Rift Salt Tectonics on Wide Rifted Margins—Insights From Geodynamic Modeling8
Assembly of the Variscan Orogenic Wedge in the Bohemian Massif: Monazite U‐Pb Geochronology of the Tectonic Events Recorded in Saxothuringian Metasediments8
Pliocene to Holocene Deformation and Earthquake Potential of the Mesamávida Fault, West Andean Thrust System of Central‐Southern Chile (36°S)8
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