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Asgari, A., & Moresi, L. (2012). Multiscale Particle-In-Cell Method: From Fluid to Solid Mechanics. In Advanced Methods for Practical Applications in Fluid Mechanics,. https://doi.org/10.5772/26419
Beall, A. P., Moresi, L., & Cooper, C. M. (2018). Formation of cratonic lithosphere during the initiation of plate tectonics. Geology, 46(6), 487–490. https://doi.org/10/gf9rmc
Beall, A. P., Moresi, L., & Stern, T. (2017). Dripping or delamination? A range of mechanisms for removing the lower crust or lithosphere. Geophysical Journal International, 210(2), 671–692. https://doi.org/10/gf9rmb
Betts, P. G., Mason, W. G., & Moresi, L. (2012). The influence of a mantle plume head on the dynamics of a retreating subduction zone. Geology, 40(8), 739–742. https://doi.org/10/f37h4h
Betts, P. G., Moresi, L., Miller, M. S., & Willis, D. (2015). Geodynamics of oceanic plateau and plume head accretion and their role in Phanerozoic orogenic systems of China. Geoscience Frontiers, Special Issue: Plate and Plume Tectonics: Numerical Simulation and Seismic Tomography, 6(1), 49–59. https://doi.org/10/gf9rk8
Beucher, R., Moresi, L., Giordani, J., Mansour, J., Sandiford, D., Farrington, R., Mondy, L., Mallard, C., Rey, P., Duclaux, G., Kaluza, O., Laik, A., & Morón, S. (2019). UWGeodynamics: A teaching and research tool for numerical geodynamic modelling. Journal of Open Source Software. https://doi.org/10/gf9rmd
Bodur, Ö. F., & Rey, P. F. (2019). The impact of rheological uncertainty on dynamic topography predictions. Solid Earth, 10(6), 2167–2178. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-2167-2019
Capitanio, F. A. (2014). The dynamics of extrusion tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling. Tectonics, 33(12), 2361–2381. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014TC003688
Capitanio, F. A., Morra, G., Goes, S., Weinberg, R. F., & Moresi, L. (2010). India–Asia convergence driven by the subduction of the Greater Indian continent. Nature Geoscience, 3(2), 136–139. https://doi.org/10/cszn4k
Capitanio, F. A., Nebel, O., & Cawood, P. A. (2020). Thermochemical lithosphere differentiation and the origin of cratonic mantle. Nature, 588(7836), 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2976-3
Capitanio, F. A., Nebel, O., Cawood, P. A., Weinberg, R. F., & Chowdhury, P. (2019). Reconciling thermal regimes and tectonics of the early Earth. Geology, 47(10), 923–927. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46239.1
Capitanio, F. A., Nebel, O., Cawood, P. A., Weinberg, R. F., & Clos, F. (2019). Lithosphere differentiation in the early Earth controls Archean tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 525, 115755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115755
Capitanio, F. A., Replumaz, A., & Riel, N. (2015). Reconciling subduction dynamics during Tethys closure with large-scale Asian tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(3), 962–982. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GC005660
Capitanio, F. A., Stegman, D. R., Moresi, L. N., & Sharples, W. (2010). Upper plate controls on deep subduction, trench migrations and deformations at convergent margins. Tectonophysics, 483(1–2), 80–92. https://doi.org/10/fjfkrc
Carluccio, R., Kaus, B., Capitanio, F. A., & Moresi, L. N. (2019). The Impact of a Very Weak and Thin Upper Asthenosphere on Subduction Motions. Geophysical Research Letters, 2019GL085212. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085212
Cenki-Tok, B., Rey, P. F., & Arcay, D. (2020). Strain and retrogression partitioning explain long-term stabilityof crustal roots in stable continents. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47301.1
Cooper, C. M., Farrington, R. J., & Miller, M. S. (2020). On the destructive tendencies of cratons. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48111.1
Cooper, C. M., Miller, M. S., & Moresi, L. (2017). The structural evolution of the deep continental lithosphere. Tectonophysics, 695, 100–121. https://doi.org/10/f9mfdt
Cooper, C. M., Moresi, L. N., & Lenardic, A. (2013). Effects of continental configuration on mantle heat loss. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(11), 2647–2651. https://doi.org/10/f44h6m
Farrington, R. J., Moresi, L.-N., & Capitanio, F. A. (2014). The role of viscoelasticity in subducting plates. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(11), 4291–4304. https://doi.org/10/f6v5kn
Farrington, R. J., Stegman, D. R., Moresi, L. N., Sandiford, M., & May, D. A. (2010). Interactions of 3D mantle flow and continental lithosphere near passive margins. Tectonophysics, Convergent Plate Margin Dynamics: New Perspectives from Structural Geology, Geophysics and Geodynamic Modelling, 483(1), 20–28. https://doi.org/10/fdvxk5
Gunawardana, P. M., Chowdhury, P., Morra, G., & Cawood, P. A. (2024). Correlating mantle cooling with tectonic transitions on early Earth. Geology, 52(4), 230–234. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51874.1
Király, Á., Capitanio, F. A., Funiciello, F., & Faccenna, C. (2017). Subduction induced mantle flow: Length-scales and orientation of the toroidal cell. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479, 284–297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.017
Korchinski, M., Rey, P. F., Mondy, L., Teyssier, C., & Whitney, D. L. (2018). Numerical investigation of deep-crust behavior under lithospheric extension. Tectonophysics, 726, 137–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.12.029
Lemiale, V., Mühlhaus, H.-B., Moresi, L., & Stafford, J. (2008). Shear banding analysis of plastic models formulated for incompressible viscous flows. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 171(1–4), 177–186. https://doi.org/10/dkzw4k
Lemiale, V., Mühlhaus, Mériaux, C., Moresi, L., & Hodkinson, L. (2011). Rate effects in dense granular materials: Linear stability analysis and the fall of granular columns. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 35(2), 293–308. https://doi.org/10/fb9dwm
Lyu, T., Zhu, Z., & Wu, B. (2019). Subducting slab morphology and mantle transition zone upwelling in double-slab subduction models with inward-dipping directions. Geophysical Journal International, 218(3), 2089–2105. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz268
Mansour, J., Giordani, J., Moresi, L., Beucher, R., Kaluza, O., Velic, M., Farrington, R., Quenette, S., & Beall, A. (2020). Underworld2: Python Geodynamics Modelling for Desktop, HPC and Cloud. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(47), 1797. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01797
Mason, W. G., Moresi, L., Betts, P. G., & Miller, M. S. (2010). Three-dimensional numerical models of the influence of a buoyant oceanic plateau on subduction zones. Tectonophysics, 483(1–2), 71–79. https://doi.org/10/brbmfn
Mériaux, C. A., Mansour, J. A., Moresi, L. N., Kerr, R. C., & May, D. A. (2011). On the rise of strongly tilted mantle plume tails. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 184(1–2), 63–79. https://doi.org/10/dtrzbq
Mériaux, C. A., May, D. A., Mansour, J., Chen, Z., & Kaluza, O. (2018). Benchmark of three-dimensional numerical models of subduction against a laboratory experiment. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 283, 110–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2018.07.009
Mériaux, C. A., May, D. A., Mansour, J., & Kaluza, O. (2020). Mantle plume dynamics at the rear of a retreating slab. Geophysical Journal International, ggaa222. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa222
Mondy, L. S., Rey, P. F., Duclaux, G., & Moresi, L. (2018). The role of asthenospheric flow during rift propagation and breakup. Geology, 46(2), 103–106. https://doi.org/10/gc7kx2
Moresi, L. (2013). EARTH SCIENCE A resolution of the Archaean paradox. Nature, 501(7468), 496–497. https://doi.org/10.1038/501496a
Moresi, L. (2015). Computational Plate Tectonics and the Geological Record in the Continents. SIAM News. https://
Moresi, L., Betts, P. G., Miller, M. S., & Cayley, R. A. (2014). Dynamics of continental accretion. Nature, 508(7495), 245–248. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13033
Moresi, L., Dufour, F., & Mühlhaus, H.-B. (2003). A Lagrangian integration point finite element method for large deformation modeling of viscoelastic geomaterials. Journal of Computational Physics, 184(2), 476–497. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9991(02)00031-1
Moresi, L., May, D., Freeman, J., & Appelbe, B. (2003). Mantle Convection Modeling with Viscoelastic/Brittle Lithosphere: Numerical and Computational Methodology. In P. M. A. Sloot, D. Abramson, A. V. Bogdanov, Y. E. Gorbachev, J. J. Dongarra, & A. Y. Zomaya (Eds.), Computational Science — ICCS 2003 (Vol. 2659, pp. 781–787). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44863-2_76
Moresi, L., & Mühlhaus, H.-B. (2006). Anisotropic viscous models of large-deformation Mohr-Coulomb failure. Philosophical Magazine, 86(21–22), 3287–3305. https://doi.org/10.1080/14786430500255419
Moresi, L., Mühlhaus, H.-B., Lemiale, V., & May, D. (2007). Incompressible viscous formulations for deformation and yielding of the lithosphere. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 282(1), 457–472. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp282.19
Moresi, L., Quenette, S., Lemiale, V., Mériaux, C., Appelbe, B., & Mühlhaus, H.-B. (2007). Computational approaches to studying non-linear dynamics of the crust and mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Computational Challenges in the Earth Sciences, 163(1), 69–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2007.06.009
Muhlhaus, H.-B., & Moresi, L. N. (2019). A Model for Trap Door Flow from a Deep Container. In W. Wu (Ed.), Desiderata Geotechnica (pp. 113–118). Springer International Publishing.
Nebel, O., Capitanio, F. A., Moyen, J.-F., Weinberg, R. F., Clos, F., Nebel-Jacobsen, Y. J., & Cawood, P. A. (2018). When crust comes of age: on the chemical evolution of Archaean, felsic continental crust by crustal drip tectonics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2132), 20180103. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0103
O’Neill, C., Lenardic, A., Weller, M., Moresi, L., Quenette, S., & Zhang, S. (2016). A window for plate tectonics in terrestrial planet evolution? Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 255, 80–92. https://doi.org/10/f8qdnr
OzBench, M., Regenauer-Lieb, K., Stegman, D. R., Morra, G., Farrington, R., Hale, A., May, D. A., Freeman, J., Bourgouin, L., Mühlhaus, H., & Moresi, L. (2008). A model comparison study of large-scale mantle-lithosphere dynamics driven by subduction. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 171(1–4), 224–234. https://doi.org/10/fptbqw
Pall, J., Zahirovic, S., Doss, S., Hassan, R., Matthews, K. J., Cannon, J., Gurnis, M., Moresi, L., Lenardic, A., & Müller, R. D. (2018). The influence of carbonate platform interactions with subduction zone volcanism on palaeo-atmospheric CO2 since the Devonian. Climate of the Past, 14(6), 857–870. https://doi.org/10/gdssk9
Rey, P. F., Mondy, L., Duclaux, G., Teyssier, C., Whitney, D. L., Bocher, M., & Prigent, C. (2017). The origin of contractional structures in extensional gneiss domes. Geology, 45(3), 263–266. https://doi.org/10.1130/G38595.1
Riel, N., Capitanio, F. A., & Velic, M. (2018). Numerical modeling of stress and topography coupling during subduction: Inferences on global vs. regional observables interpretation. Tectonophysics, Understanding Geological Processes through Modelling - A Memorial Volume Honouring Evgenii Burov, 746, 239–250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.07.023
Salerno, V. M., Capitanio, F. A., Farrington, R. J., & Riel, N. (2016). The role of long-term rifting history on modes of continental lithosphere extension. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(12), 8917–8940. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013005
Sandiford, D., & Moresi, L. (2019). Improving subduction interface implementation in dynamic numerical models. Solid Earth, 10(3), 969–985. https://doi.org/10/gf9spd
Sandiford, D., Moresi, L., Sandiford, M., & Yang, T. (2019). Geometric controls on flat slab seismicity. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 527, 115787. https://doi.org/10/gf9spf
Schellart, W. P., Freeman, J., Stegman, D. R., Moresi, L., & May, D. (2007). Evolution and diversity of subduction zones controlled by slab width. Nature, 446(7133), 308–311. https://doi.org/10/dkpg64
Schellart, W. P., & Moresi, L. (2013). A new driving mechanism for backarc extension and backarc shortening through slab sinking induced toroidal and poloidal mantle flow: Results from dynamic subduction models with an overriding plate. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 118(6), 3221–3248. https://doi.org/10/gf9sph
Schellart, W. P., Stegman, D. R., Farrington, R. J., Freeman, J., & Moresi, L. (2010). Cenozoic tectonics of Western North America controlled by evolving width of Farallon slab. Science, 329(5989), 316–319. https://doi.org/10/fqkpkn
Schellart, W. P., Stegman, D. R., Farrington, R. J., & Moresi, L. (2011). Influence of lateral slab edge distance on plate velocity, trench velocity, and subduction partitioning. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 116(B10). https://doi.org/10/ctkkmz
Sharples, W., Jadamec, M. A., Moresi, L. N., & Capitanio, F. A. (2014). Overriding plate controls on subduction evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(8), 6684–6704. https://doi.org/10/gf9rjc
Sharples, W., Moresi, L., Cooper, K., & Sunter, P. (2012). Comp. Psy. 101: The Psychology behind High Performance Computing. In F. L. Gaol (Ed.), Recent Progress in Data Engineering and Internet Technology (pp. 439–452). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Sharples, W., Moresi, L. N., Velic, M., Jadamec, M. A., & May, D. A. (2016). Simulating faults and plate boundaries with a transversely isotropic plasticity model. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 252, 77–90. https://doi.org/10/gf9rjj
Sharples, W., Moresi, L.-N., Jadamec, M. A., & Revote, J. (2015). Styles of rifting and fault spacing in numerical models of crustal extension. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 120(6), 4379–4404. https://doi.org/10/gf9rhv
Smith, T., Rosenbaum, G., & Gross, L. (2021). Formation of oroclines by buckling continental ribbons: Fact or fiction? Tectonophysics, 814, 228950. https://doi.org/10/gkdxcd
Velić, M., May, D., & Moresi, L. (2009). A fast robust algorithm for computing discrete Voronoi diagrams. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, 8(3), 343–355. https://doi.org/10/dbn7c6
Wang, Z., Kusky, T. M., & Capitanio, F. A. (2017). Ancient Continental Lithosphere Dislocated Beneath Ocean Basins Along the Mid-Lithosphere Discontinuity: A Hypothesis. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(18), 9253–9260. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074686
Wang, Z., Kusky, T. M., & Capitanio, F. A. (2018a). On the Role of Lower Crust and Midlithosphere Discontinuity for Cratonic Lithosphere Delamination and Recycling. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(15), 7425–7433. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017GL076948
Wang, Z., Kusky, T. M., & Capitanio, F. A. (2018b). Water transportation ability of flat-lying slabs in the mantle transition zone and implications for craton destruction. Tectonophysics, 723, 95–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.11.041
Yang, H., Moresi, L. N., & Mansour, J. (2021). Stress recovery for the particle-in-cell finite element method. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 311, 106637. https://doi.org/10/gh2djv
Yang, H., Moresi, L. N., & Quigley, M. (2019). Fault spacing in continental strike-slip shear zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 115906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115906
Yang, T., Moresi, L., Gurnis, M., Liu, S., Sandiford, D., Williams, S., & Capitanio, F. A. (2019). Contrasted East Asia and South America tectonics driven by deep mantle flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 517, 106–116. https://doi.org/10/gf9rh7
Yang, T., Moresi, L., Müller, R. D., & Gurnis, M. (2017). Oceanic Residual Topography Agrees With Mantle Flow Predictions at Long Wavelengths. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(21), 10,896-10,906. https://doi.org/10/gcsbvt
Yang, T., Moresi, L., Zhao, D., Sandiford, D., & Whittaker, J. (2018). Cenozoic lithospheric deformation in Northeast Asia and the rapidly-aging Pacific Plate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 492, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.03.057
Zhang, Q., Guo, F., Zhao, L., & Wu, Y. (2017). Geodynamics of divergent double subduction: 3-D numerical modeling of a Cenozoic example in the Molucca Sea region, Indonesia: 3-D NUMERICAL MODELING OF DDS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(5), 3977–3998. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB013991
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