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  1. Seismic evidence for oceanic plate delamination offshore Southwest Iberia

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joao Duarte

  2. Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Buoyancy‐Driven Tethyan‐type Ophiolite Emplacement

    Article • Tectonics, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  3. VOLCANIC GAS PLUMES’ EFFECTS ON THE SPECTRUM OF VENUS – THE 1.18 µM WINDOW

    Article • July 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  4. Ocean circulation on a temperate paleo-Venus simulated with ROCKE-3D

    Article • May 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  5. Variscan plutonism in the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberian Massif): The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian magmatism and its importance for the regional tectonic sequence of events

    Article • May 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  6. 2D Numerical modelling of continental subduction and synthetic obduction

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  7. 2D numerical models of passive margin reactivation

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  8. Analogue modeling of strike-slip faults: a new insight from different kinematic constrains

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  9. Evidence for onset of convergent tectonics within the Continent-Ocean Transition zones of the Atlantic rifted margins

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  10. Evidence of oceanic plate delamination in the Northern Atlantic

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  11. Modes of collisional orogenic growth: forward, backward and thermally induced

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  12. The effect of oceanic forearc serpentinization on ophiolite emplacement: Insights from 3D geodynamic models

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  13. Tracking a common mantle plume, from Iberia to Canarias-Madeira

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  14. Insights into plume-ridge-transform fault interactions as derived from 3D numerical geodynamic modelling of the Azores Triple Junction

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  15. A new geodynamic model of the Azores archipelago: preliminary results

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  16. Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  17. Proto-ophiolite serpentinization may influence ophiolite emplacement: Insights from numerical models 

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  18. Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic

    Article • Geology, February 2024, Geological Society of America

    Joao Duarte

  19. Supplemental Material: Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic

    Article • January 2024, Geological Society of America

    Joao Duarte

  20. Supplemental Material: Gibraltar subduction zone is invading the Atlantic

    Article • January 2024, Geological Society of America

    Joao Duarte

  21. The European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20): geologic input data for the European Seismic Hazard Model 2020

    Article • September 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  22. 2D numerical modelling of Tethyan-type ophiolite emplacement: The role of overriding plate age, serpentinization, and OCT width.

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  23. Alpine subduction and intraplate deformation along the Iberian Atlantic margins

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  24. Geodynamic modelling of continental subduction beneath oceanic lithosphere

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  25. How do subduction zones spread over Atlantic-type oceans?

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  26. Numerical modelling of intra-oceanic rifting: the rift-to-drift transition time frame

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  27. Resolving Late Cretaceous intra-plate magmatism emplacement models and plate motion on the West Iberian Margin

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  28. Subduction invasion polarity switch (SIPS):  A new mechanism of subduction initiation, with an application to the Scotia Sea region

    Article • February 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  29. Subduction initiation triggered the Caribbean large igneous province

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joao Duarte

  30. Subduction invasion polarity switch from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean: A new geodynamic model of subduction initiation based on the Scotia Sea region

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, January 2023, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  31. A Journey Through Tides

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  32. Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  33. Impact of crustal rheology and inherited mechanical weaknesses on early continental rifting and initial evolution of double graben structural configurations: Insights from 2D numerical models

    Article • Tectonophysics, May 2022, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  34. Numerical modeling of subduction zones: thermo-mechanical stabilization as a function of overriding plate rheology and thickness

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  35. Subduction invasion of the Atlantic by Mediterranean subduction zones

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  36. Tides And Relative Dissipation In Supercycles – An overview of tidal modelling work with OTIS and what’s next.

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  37. Self-replicating subduction zone initiation by polarity reversal

    Article • March 2022, California Digital Library (CDL)

    Joao Duarte

  38. Self-replicating subduction zone initiation by polarity reversal

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joao Duarte

  39. Polarity-reversal subduction zone initiation triggered by buoyant plateau obstruction

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, January 2022, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  40. Evidence of oceanic plate delamination in the Northern Atlantic

    Article • October 2021, Research Square

    Joao Duarte

  41. Evolution of parallel, oblique and triple-junction rifts: Insights from analogue modelling

    Article • Journal of South American Earth Sciences, October 2021, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  42. The Climates of Earth’s Next Supercontinent: Effects of Tectonics, Rotation Rate, and Insolation

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, July 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  43. The climates of Earth's next supercontinent: effects of tectonics, rotation rate, and insolation

    Article • June 2021, Wiley

    Joao Duarte

  44. Analysing the tidal state of a pre-plate tectonic Earth during the Archean Eon (3.9 Ga)

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  45. Tides on a Snowball

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  46. Weak tides during Cryogenian glaciations

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joao Duarte

  47. Dynamics of the Gibraltar Arc System: A complex interaction between plate convergence, slab pull and mantle flow

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, April 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  48. Back to the future II: tidal evolution of four supercontinent scenarios

    Article • Earth System Dynamics, March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  49. Back to the future 3: Analysing tectonically induced tidal resonance with conceptual models

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  50. Quest for Fluid Flow along the Gloria Fault – First results of R/V Meteor expedition 162

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  51. The climates of Earth's next supercontinent: effects of tectonics, rotation rate, and insolation

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  52. Deep Future Climate on Earth: effects of tectonics, rotation rate, and insolation

    Article • December 2019, Wiley

    Joao Duarte

  53. Back to the Future II: Tidal evolution of four supercontinent scenarios

    Article • October 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  54. Back to the Future II: Tidal evolution of four supercontinent scenarios

    Article • October 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Joao Duarte

  55. Pacific subduction control on Asian continental deformation including Tibetan extension and eastward extrusion tectonics

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joao Duarte

  56. Analogue modelling of brittle shear zone propagation across upper crustal morpho-rheological heterogeneities

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  57. Reativação tectónica

    Article • Revista de Ciência Elementar, June 2019, ICETA

    Joao Duarte

  58. Marine Transform Faults and Fracture Zones: A Joint Perspective Integrating Seismicity, Fluid Flow and Life

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, March 2019, Frontiers

    umberta tinivella, Professor Mark Alexander Lever, Joao Duarte

  59. The Alpine Orogeny in the West and Southwest Iberia Margins

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joao Duarte

  60. What will the next Supercontinent look like?

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, October 2018, Elsevier

    Hannah Davies, Joao Duarte

  61. Is There a Tectonically Driven Supertidal Cycle?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  62. Topography of the Overriding Plate During Progressive Subduction: A Dynamic Model to Explain Forearc Subsidence

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  63. Micro-seismicity in the Gulf of Cadiz: Is there a link between micro-seismicity, high magnitude earthquakes and active faults?

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2017, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  64. Analogue modelling of thrust systems: Passive vs. active hanging wall strain accommodation and sharp vs. smooth fault-ramp geometries

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  65. Recent uplift of the Atlantic Atlas (offshore West Morocco): Tectonic arch and submarine terraces

    Article • Tectonophysics, June 2017, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  66. Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards

    Article • Eos, November 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  67. Mantle plumes in the vicinity of subduction zones

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2016, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  68. Introduction to Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards

    Article • October 2016, Wiley

    Joao Duarte

  69. Seismic Potential of Thrust-Wrench Tectonic Interference between Major Active Faults Offshore SW Iberia

    Article • October 2016, Wiley

    Joao Duarte

  70. The future of Earth's oceans: consequences of subduction initiation in the Atlantic and implications for supercontinent formation

    Article • Geological Magazine, October 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Joao Duarte

  71. Lithospheric deformation in the Africa-Iberia plate boundary: Improved neotectonic modeling testing a basal-driven Alboran plate

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, September 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  72. Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards

    Article • August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Neil C. Mitchell, Joao Duarte

  73. Does subduction-induced mantle flow drive backarc extension?

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2016, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  74. The variation of crustal stretching and different modes of rifting along the Australian southern continental margin

    Article • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Joao Duarte

  75. Overriding plate deformation and variability of fore-arc deformation during subduction: Insight from geodynamic models and application to the Calabria subduction zone

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, October 2015, Wiley

    Joao Duarte

  76. A two-way interaction between the Hainan plume and the Manila subduction zone

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  77. Geodynamic models of continental subduction and obduction of overriding plate forearc oceanic lithosphere on top of continental crust

    Article • Tectonics, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  78. Analogue modelling of different angle thrust-wrench fault interference in a brittle medium

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, May 2015, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  79. How weak is the subduction zone interface?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  80. Capture of the Canary mantle plume material by the Gibraltar arc mantle wedge during slab rollback

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, April 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Joao Duarte

  81. Quantifying the energy dissipation of overriding plate deformation in three-dimensional subduction models

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, January 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Joao Duarte

  82. Rheology of petrolatum–paraffin oil mixtures: Applications to analogue modelling of geological processes

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  83. Are subduction zones invading the Atlantic? Evidence from the southwest Iberia margin: REPLY

    Article • Geology, March 2014, Geological Society of America

    Joao Duarte

  84. Are subduction zones invading the Atlantic? Evidence from the southwest Iberia margin

    Article • Geology, August 2013, Geological Society of America

    Joao Duarte

  85. Three-dimensional dynamic laboratory models of subduction with an overriding plate and variable interplate rheology

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Joao Duarte

  86. The Gibraltar subduction: A decade of new geophysical data

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2012, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  87. Thrust–wrench interference between major active faults in the Gulf of Cadiz (Africa–Eurasia plate boundary, offshore SW Iberia): Tectonic implications from coupled analog and numerical modeling

    Article • Tectonophysics, June 2012, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  88. Thrust–wrench interference tectonics in the Gulf of Cadiz (Africa–Iberia plate boundary in the North-East Atlantic): Insights from analog models

    Article • Marine Geology, November 2011, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  89. Crescent-shaped morphotectonic features in the Gulf of Cadiz (offshore SW Iberia)

    Article • Marine Geology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  90. Morphotectonics and strain partitioning at the Iberia–Africa plate boundary from multibeam and seismic reflection data

    Article • Marine Geology, December 2009, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte

  91. Morphotectonic characterization of major bathymetric lineaments in Gulf of Cadiz (Africa–Iberia plate boundary): Insights from analogue modelling experiments

    Article • Marine Geology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Joao Duarte