[1] Quantifying the degree to which tectonic and erosive processes shape landscapes is key to understanding the evolution of tectonically active mountain belts. Here we explore the interplay of these two processes along the humid, eastern flank of the South American Andes. We use high-resolution Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) and SRTM data to characterize elevation, relief, and hi...

Earth's largest calderas form as the ground collapses during immense volcanic eruptions, when hundreds to thousands of cubic kilometres of magma are explosively withdrawn from the Earth's crust over a period of days to weeks. Continuing long after such great eruptions, the resulting calderas often exhibit pronounced unrest, with frequent earthquakes, alternating uplift and subsidence of the gro...

Introduction: Tectonic features on Callisto are found (1) preferentially in large multi-ring structures, or (2) in several areas in its dark, cratered plains units outside the large multi-ring structures [1, 2]. In this latter case, tectonism is represented by fractures, scarps, and albedo lineaments. In this paper, we will mainly concentrate on tectonic features outside the large multi-ring st...

Introduction: Voyager and Galileo showed that the surface of Europa has undergone significant reworking at some point during the moon’s history. The surface is covered in lineaments, which likely formed from the tides generated from Europa’s eccentric orbit around Jupiter [1]. There is also a relative paucity of visible impact craters, suggesting a surface age of about 80 million years [2]. The...

Arculus, R.J., 1987. The significance of source versus process in the tectonic controls of magma genesis. In: S.D. Weaver and R.W. Johnson (Editors), Tectonic Controls on Magma Chemistry. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 32: 1-12. Despite the association of certain characteristic trace-element signatures with particular tectonic environments of eruption, there are accumulating data which would resu...

In the last years, large effort has been done to carry out multi-channel seismic reflection surveys (MCS) in SW Iberia to locate the active tectonic structures that could be related to the generation of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the tsunami. The outcome of these researches led to the identification of a large, compressive tectonic structure, named Marquês de Pombal thrust that, alone can a...