Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America. by Sigloch, K, Mihalynuk, MG

“…Crustal accretion occurred when North America overrode the archipelagos, causing major episodes of Cordilleran mountain building.…”

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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Intra-oceanic subduction shaped the assembly of Cordilleran North America by Sigloch, K, Mihalynuk, MG

“…Crustal accretion occurred when North America overrode the archipelagos, causing major episodes of Cordilleran mountain building. </p> …”

Structure of orogenic belts controlled by lithosphere age by Mouthereau, F, Watts, A, Burov, E

“…We conclude that inherited lithospheric strength influences the style and amount of plate-tectonic contraction during mountain building, and thus the stability of continental subduction. …”

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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Late Jurassic palaeoclimatic change from clay mineralogy and gamma-ray spectrometry of the Kimmeridge Clay, Dorset, UK by Hesselbo, S, Deconinck, J, Huggett, J, Morgans-Bell, H

“…Such changes could not have resulted from mountain building or continental rotations. © 2009 Geological Society of London.…”

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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Lower-crustal rheology and thermal gradient in the Taiwan orogenic belt illuminated by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake by Tang, Chi-Hsien, Hsu, Ya-Ju, Barbot, Sylvain, Moore, James D. P., Chang, Wu-Lung

“…The short-term modulation of the lower-crustal strength during the seismic cycle may alter the energy budget of mountain building. Incorporating the laboratory data and associated uncertainties, inferred thermal gradients suggest an eastward increase from 19.5±2.5°C/km in the Coastal Plain to 32±3°C/km in the Central Range. …”
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Unravelling the structural, metamorphic and strain history of the "Aegean Orogeny", Southern Greece with a combined structural, petrographic and geochronological approach by Lamont, T

“…In this thesis, new structural mapping, petrography, thermobarometry, phase equilibria modelling, U–Th–Pb and Lu–Hf garnet geochronology is presented from the islands of Tinos, Naxos and Delos and reveal the Cyclades have experienced a complete cycle of mountain building. The Tsiknias Ophiolite on Tinos formed at 161.9 ± 1.3 Ma and is underlaid by a metamorphic sole which displays a highly condensed and inverted temperature gradient, with partial melting directly below the ophiolite contact at P–T conditions of 8.5 kbar, 850°C. …”

Erosion-driven uplift in the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains of East Antarctica by Paxman, G, Watts, A, Ferraccioli, F, Jordan, T, Bell, R, Jamieson, S, Finn, C

“…<p>The relative roles of climate and tectonics in mountain building have been widely debated. Central to this debate is the process of flexural uplift in response to valley incision. …”

Geometrical imagery and kinematic dissipation of the late Cenozoic active faults in the West Qinling Belt: Implications for the growth of the Tibetan Plateau by ZHANG Yipeng, ZHENG Wenjun, YUAN Daoyang, WANG Weitao, ZHANG Peizhen

“…Regionally, mantle magmatism, geophysical and geological data show that the actively deforming WQB crust is dominated by main mountain building contraction shortening strain in the upper crust, decoupled plastic deformation in the lower crust and extrusion of the mantle lithosphere below to the high-strain domains in the crust above, and such a transition zone (high and low velocity/resistivity anomalies) is relatively easy to accumulate stress, leading to occurrence of major earthquake in this area.…”
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