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Mountain Root Formation

Mountain Root Formation is a geological process in which the thickened crust beneath a mountain belt extends downward into the mantle as a buoyant, compensating mass that maintains isostatic equilibrium during orogenic uplift.

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90

Authors

48

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2017–2026

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

G. Zandt, Hersh Gilbert, Thomas Owens et al. · Nature · 2004 · 416 citations

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A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: The Variscan belt of NW Iberia

José R. Martı́nez Catalán, Ricardo Arenas, Jacobo Abati et al. · Comptes Rendus Géoscience · 2009 · 274 citations · Full text

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Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains

K. M. Fischer · Nature · 2002 · 129 citations

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Metagabbros of the Gangdese arc root, south Tibet: Implications for the growth of continental crust

Zeming Zhang, Xin Dong, Hua Xiang et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2014 · 124 citations

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Craton nucleation and formation of thick lithospheric roots

Sonja Aulbach · Lithos · 2012 · 101 citations

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Authors

90

  1. MN
    Mihai N. Ducea

    University of Arizona, United States

    2 publications · 426 citations

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  2. JL
    Jingao Liu

    China University of Geosciences (Beijing), China

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  3. CH
    Craig H. Jones

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    2 publications · 426 citations

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  4. YL
    Yan Luo

    University of Alberta, Canada

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  5. DG
    D. Graham Pearson

    University of Alberta, Canada

    2 publications · 47 citations

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Institutions

48

  1. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    446 citations

  2. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    225 citations

  3. Institute of Geology and Geophysics

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    262 citations

  4. University of Alberta

    Edmonton, Canada

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    205 citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    164 citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    262 citations

  7. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Livermore, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  8. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    426 citations

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Venues

  1. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

    2 publications · 134 citations

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  2. Eos

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  3. Lithos

    2 publications · 111 citations

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  4. Nature

    2 publications · 545 citations

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  5. Geological Society of America Bulletin

    2 publications · 58 citations

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