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Active Margins

Active Margins is a tectonic boundary characterized by the convergence or divergence of lithospheric plates, distinguished from passive margins by frequent seismic and volcanic activity resulting from ongoing plate interactions.

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447

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Publications

149

Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

Brian F. Windley, D. V. Alexeiev, Wenjiao Xiao et al. · Journal of the Geological Society · 2006 · 3.4K citations · Full text

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Volcanic rock series in island arcs and active continental margins

Akiho Miyashiro · American Journal of Science · 1974 · 2.7K citations · Full text

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Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt

Wenjiao Xiao, Brian F. Windley, Jie Hao et al. · Tectonics · 2003 · 2.1K citations

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Empirical Relations between Elastic Wavespeeds and Density in the Earth's Crust

Thomas M. Brocher · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 2005 · 1.8K citations

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An indentation model for the North and South China collision and the development of the Tan‐Lu and Honam Fault Systems, eastern Asia

An Yin, Shangyou Nie · Tectonics · 1993 · 1K citations

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Authors

447

  1. TG
    Taras Gerya

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    8 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. BF
    Brian F. Windley

    University of Leicester, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 5.5K citations

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  3. JL
    Jeremy Leggett

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 481 citations

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  4. TJ
    Tim Johnson

    Curtin University, Australia

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  5. RN
    Ross N. Mitchell

    Institute of Geology and Geophysics, China

    2 publications · 39 citations

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1–5 of 447

Institutions

224

  1. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    924 citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    9.7K citations

  4. GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences

    Potsdam, Germany

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    645 citations

  5. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    7.6K citations

  6. National Taiwan University

    Taipei, Taiwan

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    358 citations

  7. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    288 citations

  8. Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    3.6K citations

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Venues

  1. Tectonics

    9 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. Geological Society London Special Publications

    9 publications · 751 citations

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  3. Journal of the Geological Society

    JGS · 7 publications · 3.9K citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 7 publications · 590 citations

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  5. Tectonophysics

    5 publications · 160 citations

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