The Ricardo Group is a 1,700-m-thick sequence of Miocene volcanic rocks and continental sedimentary rocks deposited between ~19 and 7 Ma in the El Paso basin, near the junction of the Garlock fault and the Sierra Nevada frontal fault in southern California. The combination of stratigraphic and structural data from the Ricardo Group with chronologic and rotational histories derived from magnetos...

How can the sluggish, long-wavelength mantle convection be expressed by so many time and space scales of morphotectonic activity? To investigate these relationships, we explore Java-Banda subduction zone, where geodynamic records cluster. In far-East Tethys, exceptionally arcuate Banda zone circumscribes deepest oceanic basin on Earth, seismotectonic activity slices upper plate more efficiently...