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<i>The Megatectonics of Continents and Oceans</i>. Helga Johnson , Bennett L. Smith

scientific article published in 1972

A discussion of “hidden subduction” in orogenic belts

scientific article

A harbinger of plate tectonics: a commentary on Bullard, Everett and Smith (1965) 'The fit of the continents around the Atlantic'.

scientific article

A model for the evolution of the Grampian tract in the early Caledonides and Appalachians

scientific article published in Nature

A plate-kinematic framework for models of Caribbean evolution

scientific article published in December 1988

Ancient plate margins: Some observations

scientific article published in August 1976

Appreciation of A.M. Celâl Şengör

scientific article

Arc–Continent Collision: The Making of an Orogen

Basin-forming processes and the deep structure of the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil

article

Changing Silurian-Devonian relative plate motion in the Caledonides: sinistral transpression to sinistral transtension

scientific article (publication date: March 2003)

Connemara: its position and role in the Grampian Orogeny

scientific article

Continental Collisions in the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogenic Belt: Variations Related to Complete and Incomplete Suturing

article

Continental margins: A model for conversion of atlantic type to andean type

scientific article published on 11 November 2002

Crustal evolution of the South Mayo Trough, western Ireland, based on U–Pb ages and Hf–O isotopes in detrital zircons

scientific article published in 2012

Did Bushmanland extensionally unroof Namaqualand?

scientific article published in November 2006

Displacement history of oceanic fracture zones

scholarly article

Diversity in the lower continental crust

scientific article published in 1986

Exhumation of UHP rocks by transtension in the Western Gneiss Region, Scandinavian Caledonides

scientific article published in 1998

Extensional collapse of orogens

scholarly article

Hot Spots and Continental Break-up: Implications for Collisional Orogeny

scholarly article

Insights into the tectonic evolution of the North China Craton through comparative tectonic analysis: A record of outward growth of Precambrian continents

article

Kinematics and dynamics of basin inversion

scientific article published in 1989

Kinematics of the Alpine arc and the motion history of Adria

scientific article published in Nature

Lithospheric stress, deformation, and tectonic cycles: the disruption of Pangaea and the closure of Tethys

scientific article published in 1988

Lithospheric-Scale Transtension between Vertical, Non-parallel, Planar Zone Boundaries

scientific article published in 2008

Mountain belts and the new global tectonics

scientific article

Musings in tectonics

scientific article

Nature and origin of kink-bands

scientific article published in April 1965

Ophiolite obduction

scientific article published in March 1976

Origin and emplacement of the ophiolite suite: Appalachian ophiolites in Newfoundland

scientific article published on 10 May 1971

Orogenic uplift and collapse, crustal thickness, fabrics and metamorphic phase changes: the role of eclogites

Orogeny can be very short

scientific article

Palaeocene-Oligocene tectonics of NW Europe

scientific article published in 1988

Palaeomagnetic dating of fault rocks: evidence for Permian and Mesozoic movements and brittle deformation along the extensional Dalsfjord Fault, western Norway

scientific article published in June 1992

Petrography of Ordovician and Silurian sediments in the western Irish Caledonides: tracers of a short-lived Ordovician continent-arc collision orogeny and the evolution of the Laurentian Appalachian-Caledonian margin

scholarly article by John Dewey & Maria Mange published 1999 in Geological Society Special Publication

Plate Tectonics Model for the Evolution of the Arctic

article

Plume-Generated Triple Junctions: Key Indicators in Applying Plate Tectonics to Old Rocks

scholarly article by Kevin Burke & John Frederick Dewey published July 1973 in The Journal of Geology

Pre-Mesozoic plate tectonics: How far back in Earth history can the Wilson Cycle be extended?

scientific article

Preliminary conclusions of the Royal Society and Academia Sinica 1985 geotraverse of Tibet

scientific article published in Nature

Prelithification and synlithification tectonic foliation development in a clastic sedimentary sequence

article

Prelithification and synlithification tectonic foliation development in a clastic sedimentary sequence: REPLY

article

Rapid tectonic exhumation, detachment faulting and orogenic collapse in the Caledonides of western Ireland

scientific article

Relationships between the Loch Ailsh and Borralan alkaline intrusions and thrusting in the Moine Thrust zone, southern Assynt culmination, NW Scotland

scientific article published in January 2010

Rifts at high angles to orogenic belts; tests for their origin and the Upper Rhine Graben as an example

scientific article published in January 1978

Robert Millner Shackleton. 30 December 1909 - 3 May 2001: Elected F.R.S. 1971

biographical article

Shortening of continental lithosphere: the neotectonics of Eastern Anatolia — a young collision zone

scientific article (publication date: 1986)

Stephen Moorbath. 9 May 1929 — 16 October 2016

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Subduction and eduction of continental crust: major mechanisms during continent-continent collision and orogenic extensional collapse, a model based on the south Norwegian Caledonides

scientific article published in May 1991

The Mings Bight Ophiolite Complex, Newfoundland: Appalachian oceanic crust and mantle

scholarly article

The Ocean--Continent Transition in the Uniform Lithospheric Stretching Model: Role of Partial Melting in the Mantle [and Discussion]

article

The South Connemara Group reinterpreted: a subduction-accretion complex in the Caledonides of Galway Bay, western Ireland

scientific article published in April 2004

The Tectonic Evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

The classic Wilson cycle revisited

scholarly article

The secular evolution of plate tectonics and the continental crust: An outline

scientific article published in January 2007

The sources of metamorphic heat during collisional orogeny: the Barrovian enigma

scientific article

The thermal and mechanical development of the Wessex Basin, southern England

scientific article published in 1987

Tibetan, Variscan, and Precambrian Basement Reactivation: Products of Continental Collision

article

Transpression and transtension zones

scientific article published in 1998

Transtension in Arcs and Orogens

scientific article

Transtensional Deformation of the Brittle Crust: Field Observations and Theoretical Applications in the Coso-China Lake Region, Eastern Margin of the Sierra Nevada Microplate, Southeastern California

scientific article published in March 2008

Transtensional analyses of fault patterns and strain provinces of the Eastern California shear zone–Walker Lane on the eastern margin of the Sierra Nevada microplate, California and Nevada

scientific article published on 12 August 2009

Two plates in Africa during the Cretaceous?

scientific article published in Nature

World distribution of sutures — the sites of former oceans

scientific article published in 1977