Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction
drainage patterns during the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. Disappearance of a mega-wetland in the western Amazonian basins was followed by the formation of the eastward-draining Amazon River, which has been attributed to Andean uplift1–5. However, South America’s westward motion over cold, de...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.653.4596 2023-05-15T18:21:02+02:00 Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction G. E. Shephard R. D. Müller L. Liu M. Gurnis The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2010 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.653.4596 http://geomorphology.sese.asu.edu/Papers/Shephard_etal_NatureGeosci_2010.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.653.4596 http://geomorphology.sese.asu.edu/Papers/Shephard_etal_NatureGeosci_2010.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://geomorphology.sese.asu.edu/Papers/Shephard_etal_NatureGeosci_2010.pdf text 2010 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T16:30:04Z drainage patterns during the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. Disappearance of a mega-wetland in the western Amazonian basins was followed by the formation of the eastward-draining Amazon River, which has been attributed to Andean uplift1–5. However, South America’s westward motion over cold, dense subducted slabs implies that regional subsidence and uplift east of the Andes may have been driven by mantle convection. Here we use a coupled model of mantle convection and plate kinematics to show that dynamic subsidence of up to 40 m Myr−1 initially formed the Amazonian mega-wetland. In our model, the sustained westward motion of continental South America over subducted slabs resulted in rebound of the Amazonian mega-wetland region at rates of up to 40 m Myr−1 after 30 million years ago, paired with continued subsidence of the eastern Amazonian sedimentary basins at Text South Atlantic Ocean Unknown |
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drainage patterns during the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. Disappearance of a mega-wetland in the western Amazonian basins was followed by the formation of the eastward-draining Amazon River, which has been attributed to Andean uplift1–5. However, South America’s westward motion over cold, dense subducted slabs implies that regional subsidence and uplift east of the Andes may have been driven by mantle convection. Here we use a coupled model of mantle convection and plate kinematics to show that dynamic subsidence of up to 40 m Myr−1 initially formed the Amazonian mega-wetland. In our model, the sustained westward motion of continental South America over subducted slabs resulted in rebound of the Amazonian mega-wetland region at rates of up to 40 m Myr−1 after 30 million years ago, paired with continued subsidence of the eastern Amazonian sedimentary basins at |
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Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction |
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Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction |
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Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction |
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Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate–mantle interaction |
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miocene drainage reversal of the amazon river driven by plate–mantle interaction |
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