Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2004-09-02

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/nature02847PMID 15343326
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Tectonics of Pliocene removal of lithosphere of the Sierra Nevada, California

  2004cited by this paper
• Foundering Lithosphere Imaged Beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

  2004cited by this paper
• Topographic response to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California

  2004cited by this paper
• A test of laboratory based rheological parameters of olivine from an analysis of late Cenozoic convective removal of mantle lithosphere beneath the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

  2004cited by this paper
• Receiver functions in the western United States, with implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics

  2003cited by this paper
• The Mendocino Crustal Conveyor: Making and Breaking the California Crust

  2003cited by this paper
• The Southern Sierra Nevada Drip and the Mantle Wind Direction Beneath the Southwestern United States

  2003cited by this paper
• Production and loss of high‐density batholithic root, southern Sierra Nevada, California

  2003cited by this paper
• Melt Segregation & LPO in Anorthite-Basalt Deformed in Torsion

  2003cited by this paper
• Segmentation of the Laramide Slab—evidence from the southern Sierra Nevada region

  2003cited by this paper
• Did lithospheric delamination trigger late Cenozoic potassic volcanism in the southern Sierra Nevada, California?

  2002cited by this paper
• The Basin and Range Province as a Composite Extensional Domain

  2002cited by this paper
• Lithospheric deformation during the early stages of continental collision: Numerical experiments and comparison with South Island, New Zealand

  2002cited by this paper
• Constraints on the bulk composition and root foundering rates of continental arcs: A California arc perspective

  2002cited by this paper
• An inverted continental Moho and serpentinization of the forearc mantle

  2002cited by this paper
• Seismic Images of Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Tibet: Evidence for Eurasian Plate Subduction

  2002cited by this paper
• Erosion, Himalayan geodynamics, and the geomorphology of metamorphism

  2001cited by this paper
• The California arc: Thick granitic batholiths, eclogitic residues, lithospheric-scale thrusting, and magmatic flare-ups

  2001cited by this paper
• On the conditions for lower crustal convective instability

  2001cited by this paper
• Three‐dimensional seismic model of the Sierra Nevada arc, California, and its implications for crustal and upper mantle composition

  2000cited by this paper
• Moho depth variation in southern California from teleseismic receiver functions

  2000cited by this paper
• Lithospheric instability beneath the Transverse Ranges of California

  2000cited by this paper
• Subduction-induced strain in the upper mantle east of the Mendocino triple junction, California

  2000cited by this paper
• Timing of volcanism in the Sierra Nevada of California

  2000cited by this paper
• Ephemeral crustal thickening at a triple junction:The Mendocino crustal conveyor

  1999cited by this paper
• Viscous heating in heterogeneous media as applied to the thermal interaction between the crust and mantle

  1999cited by this paper
• Rayleigh–Taylor instability of the upper mantle and its role in intraplate orogeny

  1999cited by this paper
• Seismic structure of the lithosphere from teleseismic converted arrivals observed at small arrays in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

  1998cited by this paper
• Pacific-North America Plate Tectonics of the Neogene Southwestern United States: An Update

  1998cited by this paper
• Delamination and detachment of a lithospheric root

  1998cited by this paper
• Thin crust and active upper mantle beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada in the western United States

  1998cited by this paper
• Sierra Nevada uplift: A ductile link to mantle upwelling under the Basin and Range province

  1998cited by this paper
• A Case for Delamination of the Deep Batholithic Crust beneath the Sierra Nevada, California

  1998cited by this paper
• The age and origin of a thick mafic–ultramafic keel from beneath the Sierra Nevada batholith

  1998cited by this paper
• Cenozoic thermal evolution of the central Sierra Nevada

  1997cited by this paper
• Mantle discontinuity structure from midpoint stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track

  1997cited by this paper
• Structural geology of rocks and regions

  1997cited by this paper
• Gravitational (Rayleigh–Taylor) instability of a layer with non-linear viscosity and convective thinning of continental lithosphere

  1997cited by this paper
• Buoyancy sources for a large unrooted mountain range

  1996cited by this paper
• Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada

  1996cited by this paper
• Magnetotelluric evidence of lithospheric mantle thinning beneath the southern Sierra Nevada

  1996cited by this paper
• Missing roots and mantle “drips”: Regional Pn and teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

  1994cited by this paper
• The Cordilleran Orogen: Conterminous U.S.

  1993cited by this paper
• Delamination and delamination magmatism

  1993cited by this paper
• Small-Scale Convective Instability and Upper Mantle Viscosity Under California

  1993cited by this paper
• Potassic volcanism near Mono basin, California: Evidence for high water and oxygen fugacities inherited from subduction

  1993cited by this paper
• Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the U.S. Cordillera

  1992cited by this paper
• Thermal evolution of the Sierra Nevada: Tectonic implications of new heat flow data

  1991cited by this paper
• Creation and destruction of lower continental crust

  1991cited by this paper
• Mantle flow tectonics: The influence of a ductile lower crust and implications for the formation of topographic uplands on Venus

  1990cited by this paper
• Subnormal Cenozoic geothermal gradients in the extinct Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: Consequences of Laramide and Post‐Laramide shallow‐angle subduction

  1990cited by this paper
• Structural geology of rocks and regions

  1984cited by this paper
• Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to M.L.L. (email:

  year unknowncited by this paper

• Evidence of Subduction, Collision, and Extension in Northern Borneo: Constraints From Receiver Functions

  2026cites this paper
• Transition from orogenic plateau to thinning reveals mesozoic North China craton dynamics

  2025cites this paper
• Magma transfer and pluton growth: Modelling short- and long-term processes by thermo-mechanical two-phase flow including the heat pipe mechanism

  2025cites this paper
• Moho depth (crustal thickness) variations under the northeastern midcontinent of North America, based on H-κ−c receiver-function analysis

  2025cites this paper
• ON THE ONSET TIME AND MECHANISM OF THE GREATER CAUCASUS UPLIFT AS WELL AS GENETIC TYPE AND FILLING HISTORY OF THE CISCAUCASIA TROUGHS – TRADITIONAL AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS

  2025cites this paper
• Mapping Deep Earth Interfaces Using Noise Correlations: A Step-Like Mantle Transition Zone Arrangement Beneath the Contiguous United States

  2025cites this paper
• A two-and-a-half-dimensional flexing-drip model of lithospheric instabilities and proto-subduction (with two-phase grain-damage)

  2025cites this paper
• Magma genesis and crustal evolution in continental collision zones

  2025cites this paper
• Insights on Northeastern South America Tectonics from Local Event Tomography

  2025cites this paper
• Alkali basalts from the Arabian lithospheric mantle – The view from olivine phenocrysts

  2025cites this paper
• Tracking lithospheric delamination and surface processes across the Messinian salinity crisis

  2025cites this paper
• Mesoarchean–Neoarchean coupled crust–mantle differentiation followed by gravity-driven lithospheric delamination and subduction initiation in the North China Craton

  2024cites this paper
• Fine-scale Southern California Moho structure uncovered with distributed acoustic sensing

  2024cites this paper
• Archaean continental crust formed from mafic cumulates

  2024cites this paper
• Evidence for long-lived (>100 Myr) continental intraplate volcanism: Mongolia since the last ocean closure

  2024cites this paper
• Age, origin and tectonic controls on rapid recent exhumation of the Sibela Mountains, Bacan, Indonesia

  2024cites this paper
• Late Triassic extension of thickened lithosphere of the East Kunlun orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from the geochemistry and geochronology of mafic magmatism

  2024cites this paper
• Lithospheric Foundering in Progress Imaged Under an Extinct Continental Arc

  2024influential citation
• Lithospheric delamination in models of post-collision tectonics in the Egyptian Eastern Desert and Sinai: Claims versus evidence

  2023cites this paper
• CANVAS: An Adjoint Waveform Tomography Model of California and Nevada

  2023cites this paper
• Unusually Hydrous High-Mg Basanites and Minettes of the Kings River Volcanic Field , Sierra Nevada

  2023cites this paper
• Seismically imaged lithospheric delamination and its controls on the Mesozoic Magmatic Province in South China

  2023cites this paper
• Comparing Adjoint Waveform Tomography Models of California Using Different Starting Models

  2023cites this paper
• Multi-scale imaging of 3-D electrical conductivity structure under the contiguous US constrains lateral variations in the upper mantle water content

  2023cites this paper
• Mantle thermochemical variations beneath the continental United States through petrologic interpretation of seismic tomography

  2023cites this paper
• Post-subduction tectonics induced by extension from a lithospheric drip

  2023cites this paper
• Seismic signature of subduction termination from teleseismic P- and S-wave arrival-time tomography: The case of northern Borneo

  2023cites this paper
• Lithospheric underthrusting beneath the northern Eastern Cordillera plateau, Colombian Andes: Insights from analyzing tomographic inversion using local earthquake travel time and gravity data

  2023cites this paper
• Plateau Formation Controlled by Lithospheric Foundering Under a Weak Crust

  2023cites this paper
• Basin record of a Miocene lithosphere drip beneath the Colorado Plateau

  2023cites this paper
• Incremental Emplacement of the Sierra Nevada Batholith Constrained by U-Pb Ages and Potential Field Data

  2022cites this paper
• The role of gas flushing on magma reservoir crystallization and its consequences for the growth of planetary crust

  2022cites this paper
• Diverse Styles of Lithospheric Dripping: Synthesizing Gravitational Instability Models, Continental Tectonics, and Geologic Observations

  2022cites this paper
• Crustal Thickness Variations in the Central Midcontinent, USA, and Their Tectonic Implications: New Constraints Obtained Using the H‐κ‐c Method

  2022cites this paper
• Moho undulations and high Poisson’s ratio beneath volcanic areas, west of Saudi Arabia: indication of asymmetric lithospheric uplift

  2022cites this paper
• Late Cenozoic deepening of Yosemite Valley, USA

  2022cites this paper
• From Crystals to Crustal‐Scale Seismic Anisotropy: Bridging the Gap Between Rocks and Seismic Studies With Digital Geologic Map Data in Colorado

  2022cites this paper
• Syn-collisional I-type granitoids linked to lateral lithospheric heterogeneity: A case study from the North Qaidam orogen, NW China

  2022cites this paper
• Crustal Deformation in the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane Region Inferred From P‐Wave Azimuthal Anisotropy

  2022influential citation
• Spatial Variation and Frequency Dependence of Lg Wave Attenuation With Site Response Correction Along the CCSE Array in Central California, US

  2022cites this paper
• Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in the context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous

  2021cites this paper
• Continental crust growth during the evolution of accretionary orogens: insights from the early Paleozoic granitoids in the Western Kunlun orogen, Northwest China

  2021cites this paper
• Deep entrapment of buoyant magmas by orogenic tectonic stress: Its role in producing continental crust, adakites, and porphyry copper deposits

  2021cites this paper
• Temperatures and water contents of Long Valley, CA basalts: Application of olivine–melt thermometry and hygrometry at the liquidus

  2021cites this paper
• Crustal melting vs. fractionation of basaltic magmas: Part 1, The bipolar disorder of granite petrogenetic models

  2021cites this paper
• Geodynamic modeling on the formation mechanism of Linxi Basin: New constraints on the closure time of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

  2021cites this paper
• Adjoint Tomography of Ambient Noise Data and Teleseismic P Waves: Methodology and Applications to Central California

  2021cites this paper
• ScholarWorks@CWU ScholarWorks@CWU

  2021cites this paper
• Arc tempos, tectonic styles, and sedimentation patterns during evolution of the North American Cordillera: Constraints from the retroarc detrital zircon archive

  2021cites this paper
• Glacial isostatic adjustment of the Pacific Coast of North America: the influence of lateral Earth structure

  2021cites this paper
• Seismic properties across an amphibolite- to greenschist-facies strain gradient (Neves area, eastern Alps, Italy): New considerations for shear zone imaging

  2021cites this paper
• Seismic Architecture of the Upper Mantle Underlying California and Nevada

  2021cites this paper
• Full-waveform joint inversion of ambient noise data and teleseismic P waves: methodology and applications to central California

  2021cites this paper
• Continental Tectonics Inferred From High‐Resolution Imaging of the Mantle Beneath the United States, Through the Combination of USArray Data Types

  2021cites this paper
• Lithospheric evolution of the Pre- and Early Andean convergent margin, Chile

  2020cites this paper
• High‐Resolution Numerical Modeling of Heat and Volatile Transfer from Basalt to Wall Rock: Application to the Crustal Column beneath Long Valley Caldera, CA

  2020influential citation
• Tectonic inheritance from deformation fabric in the brittle and ductile Southern California crust

  2020cites this paper
• Foundered lithospheric segments dropped into the mantle transition zone beneath southern California, USA

  2020cites this paper
• Early Eocene high-flux magmatism and concurrent high-temperature metamorphism in the Gangdese belt, southern Tibet

  2020cites this paper
• Tectonic Inheritance With Dipping Faults and Deformation Fabric in the Brittle and Ductile Southern California Crust

  2020cites this paper
• Arclogites and their role in continental evolution; part 1: Background, locations, petrography, geochemistry, chronology and thermobarometry

  2020cites this paper
• Tectonic geomorphology and Plio-Quaternary structural evolution of the Tuzgölü fault zone, Turkey: Implications for deformation in the interior of the Central Anatolian Plateau

  2020cites this paper
• Towards an Improved Understanding of Geodynamic Processes Along the Pacific Coast of Central North America

  2020cites this paper
• Seismic evidence for a fossil slab origin for the Isabella anomaly

  2020cites this paper
• Geochemical study of Cenozoic mafic volcanism in the west-central Great Basin, western Nevada, and the Ancestral Cascades Arc, California

  2020cites this paper
• Geochemical and textural investigations of the Eoarchean Ukaliq supracrustals, Northern Québec (Canada)

  2020cites this paper
• Tracing arclogites in the Paleoproterozoic Era – A shift from 1.88 Ga calc-alkaline to 1.86 Ga high-Nb and adakite-like magmatism in central Fennoscandian Shield

  2020cites this paper
• Unusually deep earthquakes in the central Sierra Nevada (California, USA): Foundering ultramafic lithosphere?

  2020cites this paper
• Crustal Deformation in Southern California Constrained by Radial Anisotropy From Ambient Noise Adjoint Tomography

  2020cites this paper
• Crustal Scale Imaging of the Arabia‐Central Iran Collision Boundary Across the Zagros Suture Zone, West of Iran

  2020cites this paper
• Contributions of Grain Damage, Thermal Weakening, and Necking to Slab Detachment

  2020cites this paper
• A review of magmatism and deformation history along the NE Asian margin from ca. 95 to 30 Ma: Transition from the Izanagi to Pacific plate subduction in the early Cenozoic

  2020cites this paper
• The anatomy of uppermost mantle shear-wave speed anomalies in the western U.S. from surface-wave amplification

  2019cites this paper
• Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the East China Sea Shelf Basin and its coupling relationships with the Pacific Plate subduction

  2019cites this paper
• The characteristics of granites in the Gaofeng and Baocheng areas, Hainan Province, China: response to subduction of the Tethyan South China Sea

  2019cites this paper
• A multicomponent Isabella anomaly: Resolving the physical state of the Sierra Nevada upper mantle from Vp/Vs anisotropy tomography

  2019influential citation
• Lithosphere, Continental

  2019cites this paper
• Synthesizing EarthScope data to constrain the thermal evolution of the continental U.S. lithosphere

  2019cites this paper
• Atmospheric flow deflection in the late Cenozoic Sierra Nevada

  2019cites this paper
• Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

  2019cites this paper
• Seismic Evidence for Lithospheric Thinning and Heat in the northern Canadian Cordillera

  2019cites this paper
• On the Use of Electromagnetics for Earth Imaging of the Polar Regions

  2019cites this paper
• Spatial and Depth‐Dependent Variations in Magma Volume Addition and Addition Rates to Continental Arcs: Application to Global CO2 Fluxes since 750 Ma

  2019cites this paper
• Constructing the Early Mesozoic Gangdese Crust in Southern Tibet by Hornblende-dominated Magmatic Differentiation

  2019cites this paper
• Crustal structure of the Carpathian Orogen in Romania from receiver functions and ambient noise tomography: how craton collision, subduction and detachment affect the crust

  2019cites this paper
• Glacial isostatic adjustment in central Cascadia: Insights from three-dimensional Earth modeling

  2019cites this paper
• Arrested development: Erosional equilibrium in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, maintained by feedbacks between channel incision and hillslope sediment production

  2019cites this paper
• Peeling back the lithosphere: Controlling parameters, surface expressions and the future directions in delamination modeling

  2018cites this paper
• Geomorphic constraints on the incision history of the lower Kern River, southern Sierra Nevada, California

  2018cites this paper
• Seismic evidence for lithospheric foundering beneath the southern Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

  2018cites this paper
• Effect of equation of state on laser imprinting by comparing diamond and polystyrene foils

  2018cites this paper
• Inferring crustal viscosity from seismic velocity: Application to the lower crust of Southern California

  2018cites this paper
• Eocene–Recent drainage evolution of the Colorado River and its precursor: an integrated provenance perspective from SW California

  2018cites this paper
• Lithospheric Deformation and Asthenospheric Flow Associated With the Isabella Anomaly in Southern California

  2018influential citation
• Upper mantle seismic anisotropy as a constraint for mantle flow and continental dynamics of the North American plate

  2018cites this paper
• An Anisotropic Contrast in the Lithosphere Across the Central San Andreas Fault

  2018cites this paper
• Moho temperature and mobility of lower crust in the western United States

  2018cites this paper
• Cambrian-Ordovician magmatism of the Ikh-Mongol Arc System exemplified by the Khantaishir Magmatic Complex (Lake Zone, south-central Mongolia)

  2018cites this paper
• Late Cretaceous Construction of the Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Central California Coast Revealed by Crystal Knob Xenoliths

  2018cites this paper
• Rayleigh and S wave tomography constraints on subduction termination and lithospheric foundering in central California

  2018influential citation