Orogens are traditionally classified according to their tectonic style. Paleoproterozoic tectonics is referred as “ancient-style tectonics” while Proterozoic “modern-style tectonics”. Ancient-style characterised by distributed vertical structures and low topography gradients, often associated with diapirism partial melting. In contrast, modern-style involve prominent strain localisation the for...

The geothermal potential of West Mesa has historically been assumed to be small because it is thought to be dominated by a left-stepping transpressional regime that is generally tight and not conducive to open fluid pathways. This may not be the complete picture, however. The 85 MWe Heber geothermal project appears to be located in a right stepover from the northwest trending seismogenic extens...

In order to understand the potential controls on Asian tectonics during the subduction of the Tethys and Indian lithospheres, we reconstruct the coupled subduction-continent deformation history using tomographic imaging, kinematics constraints and numerical modeling. The global P-waves tomographic images of the mantle below the India-Asia collision zone provide constraints on the deep structure...

a r t i c l e i n f o Plate tectonics is a self-organizing global system driven by the negative buoyancy of the thermal boundary layer resulting in subduction. Although the signature of plate tectonics is recognized with some confidence in the Phanerozoic geological record of the continents, evidence for plate tectonics becomes less certain further back in time. To improve our understanding of ...

Introduction: A key observation and open question in the Earth and Planetary Sciences is that the Earth is seemingly unique in that it exhibits plate tectonics and a buffered climate allowing liquid water to exist at the surface over its geologic lifetime. While we know plate tectonics is currently in operation on the Earth, the timing of its onset, the length of its activity, and its prevalenc...

Tectonic features on the satellites of the outer planets range from the familiar, such as clearly recognizable graben on many satellites, to the bizarre, such as the ubiquitous double ridges on Europa, the twisting sets of ridges on Triton, or the isolated giant mountains rising from Io’s surface. All of the large and middle-sized outer planet satellites except Io are dominated by water ice nea...