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Topographic support by means of mantle buoyancy forces was first theorized over eighty years ago, and the first estimate of this “dynamic topography” was computed thirty-five years ago. Despite this long history, current estimates of dynamic topography display a wide variance du…

The burial and erosion histories of continental interiors provide an important record that can test the influence of forces outside plate margin tectonism, such as dynamic topography or far-field tectonics, on continental vertical motions. The Canadian Shield, an immense region …