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Mike Gurnis
Director, Seismological Laboratory and John E and Hazel S Smits Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
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Influence of Farallon Slab Loading on Intraplate Stress and Seismicity in Eastern North America in the Presence of Pre‐Existing Weak Zones
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
31 may 2024
Erin Hightower, Michael Gurnis, Wei Mao
Despite the stability of the continental interior, eastern North America has hosted many significant historical earthquakes. Seismicity concentrate...
A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
07 may 2024
Qian Yuan, Michael Gurnis, Paul D. Asimow, Yida Li
Hadean zircons provide a potential record of Earth's earliest subduction 4.3 billion years ago. It remains enigmatic how subduction could be initia...
Decoding the formation and evolution of the ancestral trans–North American Bell River system
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TECTONICS AND SURFACE PROCESSES: FROM OROGENS TO SEDIMENTARY BASINS II ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Sara Polanco, Michael D. Blum, Huilin Wang, Trista...
The highly debated existence of a Cenozoic transcontinental river that started in the Western Cordillera of North America and terminated in the Labrad...
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A Giant Impact Origin for the First Subduction on Earth
EXPLORING EARTH’S EVOLUTION: THE HADEAN THROUGH THE PRESENT I POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Qian Yuan, Michael Gurnis, Paul D. Asimow, Yida Li
Hadean zircon grains provide a potential record of Earth's earliest subduction around 4.3 billion years ago1. However, it remains enigmatic how subduc...
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Termination of subduction due to reduction of fluid release at the plate interface
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Wei Mao, Michael Gurnis
Recent seismic and drilling studies have revealed that fluid migration and pore pressure changes along subduction thrusts leads to anomalous fault sli...
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Dynamics of the Big Mantle Wedge System in East Asia in Four-Dimensions
THE 4D EVOLUTION OF THE EAST ASIAN CONTINENT: FROM THE MANTLE TO THE SURFACE I ORAL
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Shaofeng Liu, Bo Zhang, Pengfei Ma, Chengfa Lin, N...
The kinematics of plate tectonics, deformation, and dynamic topography are strong indicators of coupling between plates and the mantle. The present-da...
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Influence of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment on Intraplate Fault Reactivation in Eastern North America in the Presence of Lithospheric Heterogeneity and Pre-existing Weakzones
INVESTIGATIONS OF ICE SHEETS, SOLID EARTH, AND SEA LEVEL FROM A GLACIAL ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT PERSPECTIVE I ORAL
cryosphere | 11 december 2023
Erin Hightower, Michael Gurnis
Intraplate seismicity in eastern North America is an enigmatic phenomenon potentially driven by several geodynamic factors, including mantle flow and ...
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Applying 3D Continental Rift Models to Venus
ANALOGUE AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF CONTINENTAL RIFTING PROCESSES POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2023
Anna Gülcher, Suzanne E. Smrekar, Michael Gurnis
Continental rift zones form a critical link in the plate tectonic cycle that dominates Earths surface. Interestingly, similarly looking structures are...
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