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A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic by Müller, R. Dietmar, Zahirovic, Sabin, Williams, Simon E., Cannon, John, Seton, Maria, Bower, Dan J., Tetley, Michael G., Heine, Christian, Le Breton, Eline, Liu, Shaofeng, Russell, Samuel H. J., Yang, Ting, Leonard, Jonathon, Gurnis, Michael

“…Global deep‐time plate motion models have traditionally followed a classical rigid plate approach, even though plate deformation is known to be significant…”
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Tectonic Regimes of the Central and Southern Andes: Responses to Variations in Plate Coupling During Subduction by Horton, Brian K.

“…Construction of the Andes has been governed largely by fluctuating contractional, neutral, and extensional tectonic regimes during differing degrees of…”
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Early Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic intraplate tectonic and magmatic events in the Cathaysia Block, South China by Shu, Liangshu, Wang, Bo, Cawood, Peter A., Santosh, M., Xu, Zhiqin

“…The geodynamic framework of the South China Craton in the Early Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic has been modeled as developing through either oceanic convergence…”
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Cretaceous Episodic Extension in the South China Block, East Asia: Evidence From the Yuechengling Massif of Central South China by Chu, Yang, Lin, Wei, Faure, Michel, Xue, Zhenhua, Ji, Wenbin, Feng, Zhentian

“…In the Cretaceous, the subduction of the Izanagi/Paleo‐Pacific plates beneath the South China Block (SCB) created a wide back‐arc domain characterized by…”
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Paleocene-Eocene foreland basin evolution in the Himalaya of southern Tibet and Nepal: Implications for the age of initial India-Asia collision by DeCelles, P. G., Kapp, P., Gehrels, G. E., Ding, L.

“…Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks derived from the southern Lhasa terrane, sitting depositionally upon rocks of the northern Indian passive continental margin,…”
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Final closure of the Paleo-Asian Ocean along the Solonker Suture Zone: Constraints from geochronological and geochemical data of Permian volcanic and sedimentary rocks by Eizenhöfer, Paul R., Zhao, Guochun, Zhang, Jian, Sun, Min

“…There is a broad consensus that the Solonker Suture Zone marks the final closure of the Paleo‐Asian Ocean, which led to the formation of the eastern segment of…”
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Ophiolites in the Xing'an-Inner Mongolia accretionary belt of the CAOB: Implications for two cycles of seafloor spreading and accretionary orogenic events by Song, Shuguang, Wang, Ming-Ming, Xu, Xin, Wang, Chao, Niu, Yaoling, Allen, Mark B., Su, Li

“…The Xing'an‐Inner Mongolia accretionary belt in the southeastern segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) was produced by the long‐lived subduction…”
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The Neotethyan Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran as an archetype for passive margin‐arc transitions by Hassanzadeh, Jamshid, Wernicke, Brian P.

“…The Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran is a northwest trending orogenic belt immediately north of the Zagros suture, which represents the former position of the…”
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The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large-scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies by Yuan, Dao-Yang, Ge, Wei-Peng, Chen, Zhen-Wei, Li, Chuan-You, Wang, Zhi-Cai, Zhang, Hui-Ping, Zhang, Pei-Zhen, Zheng, De-Wen, Zheng, Wen-Jun, Craddock, William H., Dayem, Katherine E., Duvall, Alison R., Hough, Brian G., Lease, Richard O., Champagnac, Jean-Daniel, Burbank, Douglas W., Clark, Marin K., Farley, Kenneth A., Garzione, Carmala N., Kirby, Eric, Molnar, Peter, Roe, Gerard H.

“…Recent studies of the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau have called attention to two emerging views of how the Tibetan Plateau has grown. First,…”
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Paleo-Pacific subduction-accretion: Evidence from Geochemical and U-Pb zircon dating of the Nadanhada accretionary complex, NE China by Zhou, Jian-Bo, Cao, Jia-Lin, Wilde, Simon A, Zhao, Guo-Chun, Zhang, Jin-Jiang, Wang, Bin

“…The Nadanhada Terrane, located along the eastern margin of Eurasia, contains a typical accretionary complex related to paleo‐Pacific plate…”
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Cenozoic Exhumation of the Qilian Shan in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology by Wang, Weitao, Zheng, Dewen, Li, Chaopeng, Wang, Ying, Zhang, Zhuqi, Pang, Jianzhang, Wang, Yang, Yu, Jingxing, Wang, Yizhou, Zheng, Wenjun, Zhang, Huiping, Zhang, Peizhen

“…The growth of the Tibetan Plateau is related to the Cenozoic India‐Eurasia plate collision; however, its growth and evolution to its present margins remain…”
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Detrital zircon geochronology of pre-Tertiary strata in the Tibetan-Himalayan orogen by Gehrels, G., Kapp, P., DeCelles, P., Pullen, A., Blakey, R., Weislogel, A., Ding, L., Guynn, J., Martin, A., McQuarrie, N., Yin, A.

“…Detrital zircon data have recently become available from many different portions of the Tibetan–Himalayan orogen. This study uses 13,441 new or existing U‐Pb…”
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Kinematic Evolution of the Southern North Atlantic: Implications for the Formation of Hyperextended Rift Systems by Nirrengarten, M., Manatschal, G., Tugend, J., Kusznir, N., Sauter, D.

“…We focus on the southern North Atlantic rifted margins to investigate the partitioning and propagation of deformation in hyperextended rift systems using plate…”
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Tectonics of the Eastern Kunlun Range: Cenozoic Reactivation of a Paleozoic‐Early Mesozoic Orogen by Wu, Chen, Zuza, Andrew V., Chen, Xuanhua, Ding, Lin, Levy, Drew A., Liu, Changfeng, Liu, Wencan, Jiang, Tian, Stockli, Daniel F.

“…The Eastern Kunlun Range in north Tibet, located along the northern margin of the eastern Tethyan orogenic system, records evidence for continental break‐up…”
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Neogene Expansion of the Qilian Shan, North Tibet: Implications for the Dynamic Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau by Pang, Jianzhang, Yu, Jingxing, Zheng, Dewen, Wang, Weitao, Ma, Yan, Wang, Yizhou, Li, Chaopeng, Li, Youjuan, Wang, Ying

“…The Qilian Shan, at the northeastern frontier of the Tibetan Plateau, is a key area for studying the expansion mechanism of the Tibetan Plateau. Although…”
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The Influence of Structural Inheritance and Multiphase Extension on Rift Development, the NorthernNorth Sea by Phillips, Thomas B., Fazlikhani, Hamed, Gawthorpe, Rob L., Fossen, Haakon, Jackson, Christopher A.‐L., Bell, Rebecca E., Faleide, Jan I., Rotevatn, Atle

“…The northern North Sea rift evolved through multiple rift phases within a highly heterogeneous crystalline basement. The geometry and evolution of syn‐rift…”
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Composition, Provenance, and Tectonic Setting of the Southern Kangurtag Accretionary Complex in the Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Implications for the Late Paleozoic Evolution of the North Tianshan Ocean by Chen, Zhenyu, Xiao, Wenjiao, Windley, Brian F., Schulmann, Karel, Mao, Qigui, Zhang, Zhiyong, Zhang, Ji'en, Deng, Chen, Song, Shuaihua

“…The Kangurtag belt in the Eastern Tianshan, connecting the Dananhu Arc with the Central Tianshan Arc, contains diagnostic rocks of accretionary origin, and…”
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Retro‐foreland Basin Development in Response to Proto‐Tethyan Ocean Closure, NE Tibet Plateau by Yan, Zhen, Fu, Changlei, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Buckman, Solomon, Niu, Manlan, Cao, Bo, Sun, Yi, Guo, Xianqing, Wang, Zongqi, Zhou, Renjie

“…The compositions and ages of the sediments within retro or foreland basins that are formed and preserved adjacent to collisional orogens can reflect the nature…”
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Initiation and Evolution of the Shanxi Rift System in North China: Evidence From Low‐Temperature Thermochronology in a Plate Reconstruction Framework by Su, Peng, He, Honglin, Tan, Xibin, Liu, Yiduo, Shi, Feng, Kirby, Eric

“…The Shanxi Rift System (SRS) is a prominent intracontinental rift in eastern Eurasia. However, its tectonic origin remains enigmatic, as the timing of rift…”
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Fault Segmentation as Constraint to the Occurrence of the Main Shocks of the 2016 Central Italy Seismic Sequence by Pizzi, A., Di Domenica, A., Gallovič, F., Luzi, L., Puglia, R.

“…We perform the finite‐extent fault inversion of the three main events of the 2016 Central Italy seismic sequence using near‐source strong motion records. We…”
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