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Seismicity and Present‐Day Crustal Deformation in the Southern Puna Plateau
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
22 december 2024
Sankha Subhra Mahanti, Eric Kiser, Susan L. Beck, ...
The Southern Puna plateau in the central Andes has a complicated tectonic history that includes episodes of distributed shortening and extension, l...
The Tale of Two Mountain Belts along the South America Convergent Margin
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN II ORAL
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Susan L. Beck, Jim Bradford, Sankha Subhra Mahanti...
The subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South America plate forms the largest modern convergent margin system on Earth and formed the Andes, one...
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A 3D Velocity Model of Northern Ecuador: Insights into Forearc Structures and Seismicity Patterns
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN I POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Gabriela Ponce, Anne Meltzer, Alexander Wickham-Pi...
The Ecuadorian forearc, formed by the accretion of oceanic plateaus and island arcs, includes sedimentary basins and faults from long-lived subduction...
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Orogen-Parallel Variations in Seismicity in the Central Andes Recorded by the TANGO Seismic Deployment
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN I POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Sankha Subhra Mahanti, Eric Kiser, Susan L. Beck, ...
The Central Andes exhibits distinct along-strike variability in crustal thickness, shortening, volcanism, and uplift. To better understand the process...
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Shear wave splitting across the Ecuadorian convergent margin
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN I POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Colton Lynner, Susan L. Beck, Anne Meltzer, Mario ...
Shear wave splitting provides direct observational constraints on anisotropy and deformation within the mantle. This is particularly useful in subduct...
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Analyzing the Seismic Swarm in Atacames, Ecuador
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN I POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Aracely Garcia, Anne Meltzer, Alexander Wickham-Pi...
The relationship between megathrust rupture, slow slip events (SSE), and fluid dynamics is an area of active research. Earthquake swarms, frequently o...
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Contrasting Wavespeed Images of the Northern and Southern Chilean Forearc from Tomographic Analysis of Local Earthquakes Recorded by the Trans ANdean Great Orogeny (TANGO) Experiment
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN I POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Sergio Leon-Rios, Valentina Reyes-Wegner, Gisella ...
The Trans ANdean Great Orogeny (TANGO) project is a multi-disciplinary (seismology, geology, geochemistry, petrology, and geodynamics) and multination...
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Tectonic shortening vs. mantle dynamic control on the topography and foreland basin subsidence of the Central and Southern Andes using numerical modeling
FROM THE SURFACE TO THE MANTLE: INTEGRATING GEOPHYSICAL, SEISMOLOGICAL, AND TECTONICS PERSPECTIVES ALONG THE SOUTH AMERICAN MARGIN II ORAL
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Veleda Paiva Muller, Barbara Carrapa, Susan L. Bec...
Foreland subsidence occurs primarily as a flexural response to the topographic load generated by crustal thickening in tectonic compressive settings. ...
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