In the past decade, the availability of spacederived crustal deformation data has transformed the solid Earth geophysics field. Global Positioning System (GPS) networks deployed globally provide precise timedependent information on how the Earth’s crust responds to earthquakes and plate tectonic processes. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data reveal spatially dense information ...

Because of its subaerial exposure the Asal rift segment provides an exceptional opportunity to quantify the deformation field of an active rift and assess the contribution of tectonics and volcanism to rifting processes. The present topography of the Asal rift results from the tectonic dismemberment during the last 100,000 years of a large central volcanic edifice that formed astride the rift z...

The opening of the South Atlantic Ocean is one of the most extensively researched problems in plate kinematics. Models of it have proliferated since Bullard, Everett and Smith [8] published the first-ever computer-assisted reconstruction in the 60s. In recent years, focus has shifted to understanding the early stages of continental separation. General agreement exists about ocean opening being ...

The Cardenchosa pluton is a Lower Carboniferous Variscan granite located in the southwestern Iberian Massif. It intruded along the contact between the Sierra Albarrana and Azuaga tectonic units. To the northwest the pluton connects with the leftlateral Azuaga fault. The pluton appears in the footwall of the low-angle normal Casa del Cafe fault, which crops out to the west of the granite. Gravi...

We examine the timing of deformation and exhumation of the Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif in the western syntaxis of the Himalaya. This study presents geochronologic and thermochronologic data obtained from basement, shear zone, and intrusive units within the massif to reveal the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the massif and to document the extent of the Plio-Pleistocene tectonic activity. These ...

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imaging is a recently developed geodetic technique capable of measuring ground-surface deformation with centimeter to subcentimeter vertical precision and spatial resolution of tens-of-meter over a relatively large region (~10 km). The spatial distribution of surface deformation data, derived from InSAR images, enables the construction of detaile...

Sandbox experiments with different boundary conditions demonstrate that antiformal stacks result from a forward-breaking thrust sequence. An obstacle blocks forward thrust propagation and transfers the deformation back to the hinterland in a previously formed true duplex. In the hinterland, continued shortening causes faults to merge toward the tectonic transport direction until the older thrus...

Tectonic motion across the Los Angeles region is distributed across an intricate network of strike-slip and thrust faults that will be released in destructive earthquakes similar to or larger than the 1933 M6.4 Long Beach and 1994 M6.7 Northridge events. Here we show that Los Angeles regional thrust, strike-slip, and oblique faults are connected and move concurrently with measurable surface def...

We evaluate models for the formation of the ridge belt fan assemblage on Venus through consideration of the orientation, spatial distribution, topographic expression and wavelengths of observed tectonic surface features. We favor a compressional mechanism for long wavelength deformation corresponding to the spacing of ridge belts (300_<),<400 kin). However, short wavelength ridges and grooves (...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capability to detect slow deformation over terrain areas is limited by temporal decorrelation, geometric decorrelation and atmospheric artefacts. Multitemporal InSAR methods such as Persistent Scatterer (PS-InSAR) and Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) have been developed to deal with various aspects of decorrelation and atmospheric problems affecting ...