Cycles of Andean mountain building archived in the Amazon Fan by Cody C. Mason, Brian W. Romans, Molly O. Patterson, Daniel F. Stockli, Andrea Fildani

“…Here the authors analyze detrital zircons found in the Amazon deep-sea fan that record mountain-building events and reveal cycles of orogenesis with periods of ~60–90 Myr since the Phanerozoic.…”
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Correction: Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation. by Terry A. Gates, Albert Prieto-Márquez, Lindsay E. Zanno

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Weak, Seismogenic Faults Inherited From Mesozoic Rifts Control Mountain Building in the Andean Foreland by Sam Wimpenny

“…Therefore pre‐existing faults in the Andean forelands have remained weak and seismogenic after reactivation, and have influenced the style of mountain building in South America. However, the controls on their mechanical properties in the lower crust remain unclear.…”
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Study on Redistribution of Internal Force and Plastic Hinge Development of Mountainous Building Structures with Foundations at Two Different Elevations by Yangyang Tang, Yingmin Li, Baolong Jiang, Liping Wang, Shuyan Ji

Subjects: “…mountainous building structure…”
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Lateral Variations in Lower Crustal Strength Control the Temporal Evolution of Mountain Ranges: Examples From South‐East Tibet by Camilla Penney, Alex Copley

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A contribution to the quantification of crustal shortening and kinematics of deformation across the Western Andes ( ∼ 20–22° S) by T. Habel, M. Simoes, R. Lacassin, D. Carrizo, D. Carrizo, G. Aguilar

“…<p>The Andes are an emblematic active Cordilleran orogen. Mountain building in the Central Andes (<span class="inline-formula">∼20</span><span class="inline-formula">^∘</span> S) started by the Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic along the subduction margin and propagated eastward. …”
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ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMPOSITION OF CHROMITES AND THEIR TECTONIC-MAGMATIC POSITION IN PERIDOTITE BODIES IN THE SW OF TURKEY by G. van der KAADEN

“…It also may be used to solve tectonic problems where alpine mountain building, resulting in overthrusts respectively thrust faults and posterior faulting, obliterated primary-magmatic relationship.…”
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Garnet microstructures suggest ultra-fast decompression of ultrahigh-pressure rocks by Cindy Luisier, Lucie Tajčmanová, Philippe Yamato, Thibault Duretz

“…Abstract Plate tectonics is a key driver of many natural phenomena occurring on Earth, such as mountain building, climate evolution and natural disasters. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Geophysical Data Analysis in the Issues of Natural Hazards and Risk Assessment (in Example of North Ossetia, Russia) by Dmitry Melkov, Vladislav Zaalishvili, Olga Burdzieva, Aleksandr Kanukov

“…Based on the analysis of data on Quaternary formations and quantitative estimates, it was concluded that the natural average static environmental evolution proceeds in the mode of the dynamic balance of two factors: mountain building and the equivalent increase in denudation, of which about 90% is transported and deposited by river waters and winds outside the territory. …”
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The arc-scale spatial distribution of volcano erosion implies coupled magmatism and regional climate in the Cascades arc, United States by D. O’Hara, L. Karlstrom

“…We demonstrate with a coupled landscape evolution and crustal stress model that mountain building associated with magmatism and subsequent orographically-induced erosion can redistribute surface loads and direct subsequent time-averaged magma ascent. …”
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Large variations of crustal thickness across the Taiwan orogeny constrained by Moho-refraction recorded by the Formosa Array by Min-Hung Shih, Ya-Chuan Lai, Cheng-Horng Lin

“…Abstract The Taiwan orogenic belt is formed by the strong convergence between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The detailed mountain building process is still under debated largely due to the poor constraint of deep crustal structures, particularly the geometry at the Moho-depth. …”
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Cratonic basins as effective sediment barriers in continent-scale sediment routing systems of Paleozoic North America by Andrea L. Stevens Goddard, Olivia G. Thurston, David H. Malone, Patrick I. McLaughlin, Jack Stewart

“…Abstract Provenance studies demonstrate the important control of plate boundary mountain building on continental sediment routing systems. …”
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Magmatic surge requires two-stage model for the Laramide orogeny by Joshua J. Schwartz, Jade Star Lackey, Elena A. Miranda, Keith A. Klepeis, Gabriela Mora-Klepeis, Francine Robles, Jonathan D. Bixler

“…We propose that the Laramide orogeny is a two-stage event consisting of: 1) an arc ‘flare-up’ phase in the SCB from 90-75 Ma; and 2) a widespread mountain building phase in the Laramide foreland belt from 75-50 Ma that is linked to subduction of an oceanic plateau.…”
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Provenance Analysis of the Paleogene Strata in the Northern Qaidam Basin, China: Evidences from Sediment Distribution, Heavy Mineral Assemblages and Detrital Zircon U‒Pb Geochronol... by Jianguo Yin, Shuai Zhang, Zhixiong Wu

“…Using provenance analysis to build an accurate source-to-sink relationship is the key to infer mountain building scenarios around the Qaidam Basin, and also important to understanding the uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau. …”
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Dawn of metazoans: to what extent was this influenced by the onset of “modern-type plate tectonics”? by Umberto G. Cordani, Thomas R. Fairchild, Carlos E. Ganade, Marly Babinski, Juliana de Moraes Leme

“…Other authors have alluded to the influence of Gondwana mountain-building upon Ediacaran evolution, however we claim here to have identified when and where it began.…”
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Thermal ages of the Huatung Basin determined from seismic waveform modeling: insights into Southeast Asia’s evolution by Justin Yen-Ting Ko, Ban-Yuan Kuo, Shu-Chuan Lin, Yu-Sheng Hung

“…Abstract The Huatung Basin (HB), situated on the leading part of the Philippine Sea Plate, is directly involved in oblique subduction and mountain building in the Taiwan region. However, previous studies have reported a wide range of ages for the HB, from 30 to 130 Ma, making it difficult to properly constrain regional tectonics. …”
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An Andean tectonic cycle: From crustal thickening to extension in a thin crust (34°–37°SL) by Victor A. Ramos, Vanesa D. Litvak, Andrés Folguera, Mauro Spagnuolo

“…Several orogenic cycles of mountain building and subsequent collapse associated with periods of shallowing and steepening of subduction zones have been recognized in recent years in the Andes. …”
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Great and old earthquakes against great and old paradigms ─ paradoxes, historical roots, alternative answers by G. Scalera

“…A reinterpretation of the geodynamics of the active margins and mountain building is proposed with a heuristic model that does not resort to large-scale subduction, but only to isostatic uplift of deep material intruding between two decoupling plates in a tensional environment. …”
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Suprasubduction ophiolite (SSZ) components in a middle to lower upper Jurassic Hallstatt Mélange in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Raucherschober/Schafkogel area) by Sebastian P. Drvoderic, Hans-Jürgen Gawlick, Hisashi Suzuki, Felix Schlagintweit

“…The Northern Calcareous Alps in the Western Tethys realm were affected in Middle to Late Jurassic times by a mountain building process triggered by ophiolite obduction similar to that in the Inner Western Carpathians or Inner Dinarides. …”
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Brine–Melts and Fluids of the Fe-F-P-(Ba)-(Sr)-REE Central Asian Carbonatite Province (Southern Siberia and Mongolia): The Petrogenetic Aspects by Ilya Prokopyev, Anna Doroshkevich, Anna Redina

“…The shift from melt to fluid in carbonatite complexes could occur more frequently in nature than previously believed and could also apply to other F-REE carbonatite complexes that are linked to rifting and plume activity in mountain-building zones.…”
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