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ARC ASSEMBLY AND CONTINENTAL COLLISION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC EAST AFRICAN OROGEN: Implic... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1.5k
  1. ARC ASSEMBLY AND CONTINENTAL COLLISION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC EAST AFRICAN OROGEN: Implications for the Consolidation of Gondwanaland (1994)
    Robert J. Stern Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  2. SUBDUCTION ZONES (2002)
    Robert J. Stern Reviews of Geophysics
  3. Geochemical mapping of the Mariana arc‐basin system: Implications for the nature and distribution of subduction components (2005)
    Julian A. Pearce, Robert J. Stern et al. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  4. Subduction zone infancy: Examples from the Eocene Izu-Bonin-Mariana and Jurassic California arcs (1992)
    Robert J. Stern, Sherman H. Bloomer Geological Society of America Bulletin
  5. Fore‐arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu‐Bonin‐Mariana system (2010)
    Mark K. Reagan, Osamu Ishizuka et al. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  6. Late Cryogenian–Ediacaran history of the Arabian–Nubian Shield: A review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East African Orogen (2011)
    Peter R. Johnson, Arild Andresen et al. Journal of African Earth Sciences
  7. Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution (2013)
    Harald Fritz, Mohamed G. Abdelsalam et al. Journal of African Earth Sciences
  8. Subduction initiation: spontaneous and induced (2004)
    Robert J. Stern Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  9. The Saharan Metacraton (2002)
    Mohamed G. Abdelsalam, Jean-Paul Liégeois et al. Journal of African Earth Sciences
  10. Continental lithosphere of the Arabian Plate: A geologic, petrologic, and geophysical synthesis (2010)
    Robert J. Stern, Peter R. Johnson Earth-Science Reviews
  11. To understand subduction initiation, study forearc crust: To understand forearc crust, study ophiolites (2012)
    Robert J. Stern, Mark K. Reagan et al. Lithosphere
  12. Subduction initiation in nature and models: A review (2017)
    Robert J. Stern, Taras Gerya Tectonophysics
  13. The ‘subduction initiation rule’: a key for linking ophiolites, intra-oceanic forearcs, and subduction initiation (2011)
    Scott Whattam, Robert J. Stern Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  14. Plate tectonics on the Earth triggered by plume-induced subduction initiation (2015)
    Taras Gerya, Robert J. Stern et al. Nature

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