Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries [PDF]
Nature Geoscience, 2022 Transform faults accommodate the lateral motions between lithospheric plates, producing large earthquakes. Away from active transform boundaries, former oceanic transform faults also form the fracture zones that cover the ocean floor. However, the deep structure of these faults remains enigmatic.
Zhikai Wang +4 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 169-190., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Nasrrddine Youbi +9 more
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High‐Pressure Na‐Ca Carbonates in the Deep Carbon Cycle
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 127-136., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Sergey Rashchenko +2 more
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A model of the evolution of the lithosphere of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen
Вестник Камчатской региональной ассоциации "Учебно-научный центр". Серия: Науки о Земле, 2021 The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen is one of the active orogens on Earth. The processes caused by the collision of two continents have attracted attention of many researchers, and over the past decades, a large amount of geological and geophysical data has ...
Alekseev R.S., Rebetsky Yu.L.
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Induced suction and lithospheric plate pull [PDF]
Nature, 1978 Shoemaker proposes to explain the driving force of plate tectonics as 'induced suction’ by the low density sediments in the trench. However, his calculation, which is based solely on fluid statics, does not tell us what the energy source for the motion is, neither does it tell us anything essentially new about subduction dynamics.
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Cenozoic plate driving forces [PDF]
, 1995 Past studies of plate driving forces have concluded that the forces due to subducted slabs in the upper mantle and those due to the thickening of the oceanic lithosphere are the principal driving forces. We reexamine the balance of driving forces for the
Lithgow‐Bertelloni, C, Richards, MA
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Deep-focus earthquakes: spatial patterns, possible causes and geodynamic consequences
Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2018 The spatial analysis was conducted to analyze the positions of earthquakes hypocenters in the transit zone of the upper mantle and the focal mechanisms of the strongest earthquakes in the subduction slabs of theOkhotskSeasegment of the Kuril-Kamchatka ...
A. N. Didenko, M. I. Kuzmin
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Horizontal mantle flow controls subduction dynamics [PDF]
, 2017 It is generally accepted that subduction is driven by downgoing-plate negative buoyancy. Yet plate age –the main control on buoyancy– exhibits little correlation with most of the present-day subduction velocities and slab dips. “West”-directed subduction
Dal Zilio, Luca +3 more
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Plume head–lithosphere interactions near intra-continental plate boundaries [PDF]
Tectonophysics, 2007 Plume-lithosphere interactions (PLI) have important consequences both for tectonic and mineralogical evolution of the lithosphere: for example, Archean metallogenic crises at the boundaries of the West African and Australian cratons coincide with postulated plume events. In continents, PLI are often located near boundaries between younger plates (e.g.,
Burov, Evgenii +4 more
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The Ability of Significant Tidal Stress to Initiate Plate Tectonics [PDF]
, 2019 Plate tectonics is a geophysical process currently unique to Earth, has an important role in regulating the Earth's climate, and may be better understood by identifying rocky planets outside our solar system with tectonic activity.
Triaud, Amaury H. M. J., Zanazzi, J. J.
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