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Seismotectonics of the Eastern Margin of the Australia Plate

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Upper plate heterogeneity along the Southern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

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Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2010 eastern margin of the Australia plate

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Using subducting plate motion to constrain Cascadia slab geometry and interface strength

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Basin development along the Late Mesozoic and Cainozoic California Margin: A plate tectonic margin of subduction, oblique subduction and transform tectonics

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Subducting plate geology in three great earthquake ruptures of the western Alaska margin, Kodiak to Unimak

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Crustal structure of a transform plate boundary: San Francisco Bay and the central California continental margin

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Did the Aleutian Basin form by plate capture or backarc basin opening?

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Accretionary margin of north-western Hispaniola: morphology, structure and development of part of the northern Caribbean plate boundary

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Jurassic silicic volcanism in the Transantarctic Mountains: Was it related to plate margin processes or to Ferrar magmatism?

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Evidence for subduction of a major ocean plate along the California margin during the Middle to Early Late Jurassic

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Petrology and age of volcanic-arc rocks from the continental margin of the Bering Sea: Implications for Early Eocene relocation of plate boundaries

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Taconic plate kinematics as revealed by foredeep stratigraphy, Appalachian orogen

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Tectonic evolution of submarine canyons along the California continental margin

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Subducting plate structure and megathrust morphology from deep seismic imaging linked to earthquake rupture segmentation at Cascadia

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Earthquake stress drops, ambient tectonic stresses and stresses that drive plate motions

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Cruise report for EEZ-SCAN cruise F8-88-AA; eastern Aleutian Arc oceanic plate and western Alaska peninsula margin between 179 degrees and 158 degrees west longitude, North Pacific Ocean

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Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2013, seismotectonics of South America (Nazca Plate Region)

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Tectonic implications of post-30 Ma Pacific and North American relative plate motions

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Gunbarrel mafic magmatic event: A key 780 Ma time marker for Rodinia plate reconstructions

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Imaging the Juan de Fuca plate beneath southern Oregon using teleseismic P wave residuals

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Upper plate contraction north of the migrating Mendocino triple junction northern California: Implications for partitioning of strain

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Volcano Watch — Two eruptions bordering the Pacific plate: one huge, one small but ongoing

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Formation of Fe-Mn crusts within a continental margin environment

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Thermochronology and tectonics of the Leeward Antilles: Evolution of the southern Caribbean Plate boundary zone

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Late Neogene geohistory analysis of the Humboldt basin and its relationship to convergence of the Juan de Fuca plate

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Magmatic record of changing Cordilleran plate-boundary conditions—Insights from Lu-Hf isotopes in the Mojave Desert

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Neogene rotations and quasicontinuous deformation of the Pacific Northwest continental margin

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Barite-forming environments along a rifted continental margin, Southern California Borderland

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Aeromagnetic legacy of early Paleozoic subduction along the Pacific margin of Gondwana

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