• 3-D seismic images of an extensive igneous sill in the lower crust 

      Wrona, Thilo; Magee, Craig; Fossen, Haakon; Gawthorpe, Rob; Bell, Rebecca E.; Jackson, Christopher Aiden Lee; Faleide, Jan Inge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-31)
      When continents rift, magmatism can produce large volumes of melt that migrate upwards from deep below the Earth’s surface. To understand how magmatism impacts rifting, it is critical to understand how much melt is generated ...
    • Building up or out? Disparate sequence architectures along an active rift margin-Corinth rift, Greece 

      Gawthorpe, Rob; Andrews, Julian E.; Collier, Richard E.L.I.; Ford, Mary; Henstra, Gijs Allard; Kranis, Haralambos; Leeder, Mike R.; Muravchik, Martin; Skourtsos, Emmanuel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-12)
      Early Pleistocene synrift deltas developed along the southern Corinth rift margin were deposited in a single, dominantly lacustrine depocenter and were subject to the same climate-related base-level and sediment supply ...
    • The largest delta plain in Earth's history 

      Klausen, Tore Grane; Nyberg, Bjørn R.; Helland-Hansen, William (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-22)
      Delta plains host heavily populated and extensive agricultural areas with strong anthropogenic overprints on the natural evolution of these important landforms. Furthermore, modern delta plains have formed over a short ...
    • Latitudinal variability in the Quaternary development of the Eurasian ice sheets—Evidence from the marine domain 

      Hjelstuen, Berit Oline Blihovde; Sejrup, Hans Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Here we present the first compilation of sediment volumes, sedimentation rates, and chronology of Quaternary sediment packages along the entire marine margin of the Eurasian ice sheets (EurIS; British–Irish, Kara–Barents ...
    • Progressive tilting of salt-bearing continental margins controls thin-skinned deformation 

      Ge, Zhiyuan; Rosenau, Matthias; Warsitzka, Michael; Gawthorpe, Rob (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      As a primary driving force, margin tilting is crucial for gravity-driven thin-skinned salt tectonics. We investigated how instant versus progressive margin tilting mechanisms influence salt tectonics using an analogue ...
    • Spatio-temporal patterns of Pyrenean exhumation revealed by inverse thermo-kinematic modeling of a large thermochronologic data set 

      Curry, Magdalena Ellis; van der Beek, Peter; Huismans, Ritske Sipke; Wolf, Sebastian Georg; Fillon, Charlotte; Muñoz, Josep Anton (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Large thermochronologic data sets enable orogen-scale investigations into spatio-temporal patterns of erosion and deformation. We present the results of a thermo-kinematic modeling study that examines large-scale controls ...
    • Tipping the balance: Shifts in sediment production in an active rift setting 

      Pechlivanidou, Sofia; Cowie, Patience; Duclaux, Guillaume; Nixon, Casey William; Gawthorpe, Robert; Salles, Tristan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-06)
      Landscapes in actively developing rifts respond to tectonic forcing over a similar time scale to that of fault array evolution (i.e., 10^5–10^6 yr). Consequently transient landscapes (i.e., not in topographic steady state) ...
    • Widespread glacial erosion on the Scandinavian passive margin 

      Pedersen, Vivi; Knutsen, Åsne Rosseland; Pallisgaard-Olesen, Gustav; Andersen, Jane Lund; Moucha, Robert; Huismans, Ritske Sipke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The topography in Scandinavia features enigmatic high-elevation low-relief plateau regions dissected by deep valleys and fjords. These plateau regions have long been interpreted as relict landforms of a preglacial origin, ...