Both plate splitting and extension of convergent regions occur most often in continental, and not oceanic, lithosphere. Rifts are places where the breakup process either did not or has not yet progressed to seafloor spreading. Thus, they give us a snapshot of the early phase of continental exte...
Vogelmann, AM, AM Fridlind, T Toto, S Endo, W Lin, J Wang, S Feng, Y Zhang, DD Turner, Y Liu, Z Li, S Xie, AS Ackerman, M Zhang, and M Khairoutdinov. 2015. "RACORO continental boundary layer cloud investigations. Part I: Case study development and ensemble large-scale ...
The continental crust covers nearly a third of the Earth’s surface. It is buoyant—being less dense than the crust under the surrounding oceans—and is compositionally evolved, dominating the Earth’s budget for those elements that preferentially partit
Partial melting of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks at convergent continental margins: Evidences, melt compositions and physical effects[J]. Geoscience Frontiers, 2018, 9(4): 1229-1242. DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2017.08.002 [9] Clément Ganino, Nicholas T. Arndt, Catherine Chauvel, Alexandre Jean, ...
Convergent plate margins where large turbidite fans with slivers of oceanic basement are accreted to continents represent important sites of continental crustal growth and recycling. Crust accreted in these settings is dominated by an upper layer of recy
Active Continental Margin Synonyms Convergent boundary;Convergent margin;Destructive margin;Ocean-continent subduction;Oceanic subduction zone;Subduction zone Definition An active continental margin refers to the submerged edge of a continent overriding an oceanic lithosphere at a convergent plate boundary by ...
subduction is the process that takes place at convergent plate boundaries where one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the mantle as the plates converge. Rates of subduction are typically on the order of inches (or less) per year, with the rate of convergence being...
Recent and present-day stresses in the Granada Basin (Betic Cordilleras): Example of a late Miocene-present-day extensional basin in a convergent plate bou... The diffuse convergent boundary between the Eurasian and African plates in the western Mediterranean is associated with a seismicity zone mo...
a Map of the convergent system of the Indian and Asian plates in the Myanmar region. Each seismic station used in this study is shown with a blue triangle. The yellow areas mark the outcrops of Late Cretaceous to Miocene volcanic rocks, and the purple areas mark ophiolites in the IBR. ...
Three convergent fronts, defining three shelf domains, occur in the open-water season over the continental shelf of the Bering Sea (Coachmanet al.,1980;Coachman, 1986). The depths of wind and tidal mixing overlap along an inner, coastal front that lies along the 50-m isobath for a distan...