Jonny Wu

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• Chen, Y., Wu, J., & Goes, S. (2024). Lesser Antilles slab reconstruction reveals lateral slab transport under the Caribbean since 50 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 627, 118561.
• Qian, S., Wu, J. T., & Wu, J. (2024). Philippine Sea plate and surrounding magmatism reveal the Antarctic-Zealandia, Pacific, and Indian mantle domain boundaries. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 183.
• Sibuet, J., Liu, S., Zhao, M., Wu, W., Wu, Y., Cheng, J., & Wu, J. (2024). A revolution in understanding SE Asia geodynamics since 20.5--18 Ma. Tectonophysics, 884, 230397.
• Tao, Z., Li, A., Wu, J., & Fischer, K. M. (2024). Revealing the Cape Verde hotspot track across the Great Lakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(1), e2024GL110777.
• Wu, J., Wu, T., & Yamaoka, K. (2024). Linking Pacific plate motions to metamorphism and magmatism in Japan during Cretaceous to Paleogene times. Elements, 20(2), 103--109.
• Rahimzadeh Bajgiran, M., Colli, L., & Wu, J. (2023). Assessing large-scale mantle compositional heterogeneity from machine learning analysis of 28 global P- and S-wave tomography models. Geophysical Journal International, 235(3), 2778-2793.
• Rahimzadeh, B. M., Colli, L., & Wu, J. (2023). Comparing 28 global P- and S- wave tomography models by Machine Learning analysis for the interpretation of the Earth???s mantle structures.
• Wu, J., Lin, Y., & Colli, L. (2023). NW Pacific-Panthalassa intra-oceanic subduction during Mesozoic-Cenozoic times from mantle convection and geoid models.
• Zhang, J., Zhang, G., & Wu, J. (2023). Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the southwestern Mariana subduction zone. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 197.
• Zhou, Y., Carter, A., Wu, J., Yao, Y., Zhu, R., Liu, H., Liu, W., Zhao, Q. i., Zhu, Z., Yan, Y. i., & Liu, Q. (2023). Nature of the Paleo???Pacific Subduction Along the East Asian Continental Margin in the Mesozoic: Insights From the Sedimentary Record of West Sarawak, Borneo. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(8).
• Qian, S., Salters, V., McCoy-West, A. J., Wu, J., Rose-Koga, E. F., Nichols, A., Zhang, L., & Zhou, H. (2022). Highly heterogeneous mantle caused by recycling of oceanic lithosphere from the mantle transition zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 593.
• Wu, J., Lin, Y., Flament, N., Wu, J. T., & Liu, Y. (2022). Northwest Pacific-Izanagi plate tectonics since Cretaceous times from western Pacific mantle structure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 583, 117445.
• Wu, J., Wu, J., & Okamoto, K. (2022). Intra-oceanic arc accretion along Northeast Asia during Early Cretaceous provides a plate tectonic context for North China craton destruction. Earth-Science Reviews, 226.
• Wu, J., Wu, J., Alexandrov, I., Lapen, T., Lee, H., & Ivin, V. (2022). Continental growth during migrating arc magmatism and terrane accretion at Sikhote-Alin (Russian Far East) and adjacent northeast Asia. Lithos, 432-433.
• Amonpantang, P., & Wu, J. (2021). Structural characterization of the Phitsanulok basin, onshore Thailand, and regional tectonic implications. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 130.
• Chen, Y. W., Colli, L., Bird, D. E., Wu, J., & Zhu, H. (2021). Caribbean plate tilted and actively dragged eastwards by low-viscosity asthenospheric flow. Nature communications, 12(1), 1603.
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  The importance of a low-viscosity asthenosphere underlying mobile plates has been highlighted since the earliest days of the plate tectonics revolution. However, absolute asthenospheric viscosities are still poorly constrained, with estimates spanning up to 3 orders of magnitude. Here we follow a new approach using analytic solutions for Poiseuille-Couette channel flow to compute asthenospheric viscosities under the Caribbean. We estimate Caribbean dynamic topography and the associated pressure gradient, which, combined with flow velocities estimated from geologic markers and tomographic structure, yield our best-estimate asthenospheric viscosity of (3.0 ± 1.5)*10 Pa s. This value is consistent with independent estimates for non-cratonic and oceanic regions, and challenges the hypothesis that higher-viscosity asthenosphere inferred from postglacial rebound is globally-representative. The active flow driven by Galapagos plume overpressure shown here contradicts the traditional view that the asthenosphere is only a passive lubricating layer for Earth's tectonic plates.
• Fuston, S., & Wu, J. (2021). Raising the Resurrection Plate from an Unfolded-slab Plate Tectonic Reconstruction of Northwestern North America Since Early Cenozoic Time. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 133, 1128-1140.
• Hussein, M., Stewart, R. R., & Wu, J. (2021). Which seismic attributes are best for subtle fault detection?. Interpretation, 9(2), T299-T314.
• Hussein, M., Stewart, R. R., Sacrey, D., Johnston, D. H., & Wu, J. (2021). Unsupervised machine learning for time-lapse seismic studies and reservoir monitoring. Interpretation, 9(3), T791-T807.
• Hussein, M., Stewart, R. R., Sacrey, D., Wu, J., & Athale, R. (2021). Unsupervised machine learning using 3D seismic data applied to reservoir evaluation and rock type identification. Interpretation, 9(2), T549-T568.
• Qian, S., Zhang, X., Wu, J., Lallemand, S., Nichols, A., Huang, C., Miggins, D. P., & Zhou, H. (2021). First identification of a Cathaysian continental fragment beneath the Gagua Ridge, Philippine Sea, and its tectonic implications. Geology, 49(11), 1332-1336.
• Rao, G., Le, B. M., Lu, R., Graveleau, F., Wu, J., & Delcaillau, B. (2021). Editorial: Active Fold-and-Thrust Belts: From Present-Day Deformation to Structural Architecture and Modelling. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9.
• Sibuet, J., Zhao, M., Wu, J., & Lee, C. (2021). Geodynamic and plate kinematic context of South China Sea subduction during Okinawa trough opening and Taiwan orogeny. Tectonophysics, 817.
• Ward, J. F., Rosenbaum, G., Ubide, T., Wu, J., Caulfield, J. T., Sandiford, M., & G\"urer, D. (2021). Geophysical and geochemical constraints on the origin of Holocene intraplate volcanism in East Asia. Earth-Science Reviews, 218.
• Lin, Y., Colli, L., & Wu, J. (2020). Where are the proto-South China Sea slabs? SE Asian plate tectonics and mantle flow history from global mantle convection modeling.
• Lin, Y., Colli, L., Wu, J., & Schuberth, B. (2020). Where Are the Proto-South China Sea Slabs? SE Asian Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow History From Global Mantle Convection Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(12).
• Wu, J., Mcclay, K., & Vera, J. (2020). Growth of triangle zone fold-thrusts within the NW borneo deep-water fold belt, offshore sabah, southern South China Sea. Geosphere, 16(1), 329-356.
• Amonpantang, P., Bedle, H., & Wu, J. (2019). Multiattribute analysis for channel element discrimination in the Taranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand. Interpretation, 7(2), SC45???SC61.
• Chen, Y. W., Wu, J., & Suppe, J. (2019). Southward propagation of Nazca subduction along the Andes. Nature, 565(7740), 441-447.
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  The Andean margin is the plate-tectonic paradigm for long-lived, continuous subduction, yet its geology since the late Mesozoic era (the past 100 million years or so) has been far from steady state. The episodic deformation and magmatism have been attributed to cyclic changes in the dip angle of the subducting slab, slab break-off and the penetration of the slab into the lower mantle; the role of plate tectonics remains unclear, owing to the extensive subduction of the Nazca-Farallon plate (which has resulted in more than 5,500 kilometres of lithosphere being lost to the mantle). Here, using tomographic data, we recreate the plate-tectonic geometry of the subducted Nazca slab, which enables us to reconstruct Andean plate tectonics since the late Mesozoic. Our model suggests that the current phase of Nazca subduction began at the northern Andes (5° S) during the late Cretaceous period (around 80 million years ago) and propagated southwards, reaching the southern Andes (40° S) by the early Cenozoic era (around 55 million year ago). Thus, contrary to the current paradigm, Nazca subduction has not been fully continuous since the Mesozoic but instead included episodic divergent phases. In addition, we find that foredeep sedimentation and the initiation of Andean compression are both linked to interactions between the Nazca slab and the lower mantle, consistent with previous modelling.
• Li, L., Chen, Y., Zheng, Y., Hu, H., & Wu, J. (2019). Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-Resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(23), 13687--13694.
• Suppe, J., & Wu, J. (2019). The second half of plate tectonics: finding the last \~200 Ma of subducted lithosphere and incorporating it into plate reconstruction. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93(S1), 10.
• Wu, J., & Wu, J. (2019). Izanagi-Pacific ridge subduction revealed by a 56 to 46 Ma magmatic gap along the northeast Asian margin. Geology, 47(10), 953-957.
• Zhao, M., Sibuet, J. C., & Wu, J. (2019). Intermingled fates of the South China Sea and Philippine Sea plate. National science review, 6(5), 886-890.
• Zhao, M., Sibuet, J., Liu, S., Pang, X., Qiu, X., Wu, J., & Gao, J. (2019). The South China Sea oceanic domain at the end of spreading. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 93(S1), 90-91.
• Liu, S., Zhao, M., Sibuet, J., Qiu, X., Wu, J., Zhang, J., Chen, C., Xu, Y. a., & Sun, L. (2018). Geophysical constraints on the lithospheric structure in the northeastern South China Sea and its implications for the South China Sea geodynamics. Tectonophysics, 742-743, 101--119.
• Wu, J., & Suppe, J. (2017). Proto-South China Sea Plate Tectonics Using Subducted Slab Constraints from Tomography. Journal of Earth Science, 29(6), 1304--1318.
• Wu, J., Suppe, J., Lu, R., & Kanda, R. (2016). Philippine Sea and East Asian plate tectonics since 52 Ma constrained by new subducted slab reconstruction methods. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(6), 4670-4741.
• Wu, J. E., McClay, K., & Frankowicz, E. (2015). Niger Delta gravity-driven deformation above the relict Chain and Charcot oceanic fracture zones, Gulf of Guinea: Insights from analogue models. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 65, 43-62.
• Lu, R., He, D., John, S., Wu, J. E., Liu, B. o., & Chen, Y. (2014). Structural model of the central Longmen Shan thrusts using seismic reflection profiles: Implications for the sediments and deformations since the Mesozoic. Tectonophysics, 630, 43???53.
• Sugan, M., Wu, J., & McClay, K. (2014). 3D analogue modelling of transtensional pull-apart basins: Comparison with the Cinarcik basin, Sea of Marmara, Turkey. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, 55(4), 699-716.
• Lu, R., John, S., He, D., Wu, J., Kanda, R., Liu, B., & Chen, Y. (2013). Deep subducting slab reconstruction and its geometry, kinematics: a case study for the Tonga-kermadec slab from tomography. Acta Geophysica Sinica, 56(11), 3837-3845.
• Wu, J. E., McClay, K., Whitehouse, P., & Dooley, T. (2012). 4D analogue modelling of transtensional pull-apart basins. Regional Geology and Tectonics, 700-730.
• Wu, J. E., & McClay, K. R. (2011). Two-dimensional analog modeling of fold and thrust belts: Dynamic interactions with syncontractional sedimentation and erosion. AAPG Memoir, 301-333.
• Wu, J. E., McClay, K., Whitehouse, P., & Dooley, T. (2009). 4D analogue modelling of transtensional pull-apart basins. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 26(8), 1608-1623.

Proceedings Publications

• Calvelage, C. M., Wu, J., Colli, L., Lin, Y., & Zheng, Y. (2024). Linking deep-time subduction history to modern day expressions of dynamic topography. In Proceedings A, 480.

Others

• Ding, W., Huang, X., Zhao, L., Wu, J., Dimalanta, C. B., Pubellier, M., & Wang, F. (2024). Dynamic processes of the Southeast (SE) Asia convergent system and its impact on continental deformation and marginal basin formation: Preface.
• Liao, J., Lu, Z., Huangfu, P., Xu, T., Zhao, L., Zhong, X., & Wu, J. (2024). Episodic plate destruction and construction in Southeast Asia: observations, modeling, and case studies.
• Rao, G., Chen, W., Yan, D., Tian, Y., Deng, B., Luo, G., & Wu, J. (2024). Lithosphere and surface processes of the Sichuan Basin and surrounding areas: resources and environmental effects.
• Zhang, R., Zhang, B., Zhu, H., Sibuet, J., Briais, A., Wu, J., Susilohadi, S., Zeng, H., Chen, J., & Zhong, G. (2024). Introduction to special section: South China Sea deep structures and tectonics.