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Slab Dehydration Observed Down to Lower Seismicity Plane Depths in the Northern Chile Subduction Zone

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract We present a high‐resolution local earthquake tomography model that constrains the distribution of hydration and dehydration processes within the subducting Nazca slab beneath Northern Chile. We image a distinct downdip transition from high Vp/Vs (∼1.75) over low Vp/Vs (∼1.65) to a homogeneously high Vp/Vs slab at depths of ≥ ${\ge} $85 km ...
Nazia Hassan, Christian Sippl
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Mantle Velocity Uncertainty on Receiver‐Function Imaging of the Transition Zone

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract Seismological estimates of the 400‐km and 670‐km mantle discontinuities (d400 and d670) are crucial for understanding the thermochemical structure and dynamics of the mantle transition zone (MTZ). However, artifacts from using ray theory and uncertainties in mantle velocity structure can affect topographic mapping of these boundaries.
Carlos A. M. Chaves, Felipe P. Corral, Jeroen Ritsema   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plume–Lithosphere Interaction and the Role of the Mid‐Lithospheric Discontinuity in Craton Delamination

Geophysical Research Letters
We present results from thermo‐mechanical numerical modeling of interactions between thermal, thermo‐compositional, and purely compositional (hydrous) mantle plumes, and a rheologically layered lithosphere containing a mid‐lithospheric discontinuity (MLD)
Alessio Lavecchia, István Kovács, Alexander Koptev, Sierd Cloetingh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seismic Attenuation Reveals Fault and Forearc Structure Across the Subduction‐Collision Transition in Southern Taiwan

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 8, 28 April 2026.
Abstract The Southern Array for the Lithosphere and Uplift of Taiwan Experiment (SALUTE) provides a new window into the subduction‐collision transition zone in southern Taiwan, where the Eurasian Plate‐Luzon Arc convergence drives intense orogeny and crustal deformation. Using dense P‐ and S‐wave spectral amplitude data recorded by SALUTE and a quality
Yu‐Pin Lin, Shu‐Huei Hung, Tai‐Lin Tseng, Pei‐Ying Patty Lin, Eh Tan, Ying‐Nien Chen   +5 more
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Regional‐to‐Global Tectonic and Trench‐Morphology Effects of Oceanic Plateau Subduction

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
Abstract Regional geodynamic modeling has shown that oceanic plateau subduction can modify the slab behavior. However, few studies have explored these interactions beyond 100 Myr in 3‐D spherical models. Using 3‐D spherical mantle convection models with self‐consistent plate‐like behavior, we investigate how the geometry and rheological properties of ...
Yang Liu, Nicolas Coltice, Laetitia Le Pourhiet, Ziyin Wu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the Deep Martian Mantle Heterogeneous? A Reappraisal of Seismological Evidences

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 7, 16 April 2026.
Abstract It has been proposed that the deep Martian mantle contains distributed heterogeneities preserved since the accretion of the planet. This result relies on a multiple‐scattering interpretation of frequency‐dependent arrival times of P $P$‐waves detected in the spectrograms of teleseismic Martian events.
L. Margerin
wiley   +1 more source

Seismic Constraints on Temperature, Partial Melt, and Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere Dynamics in the Southwestern United States

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
The southwestern United States hosts well‐documented and dramatic variations in topography, seismicity, heat flow, magmatism, and seismic velocity structure.
E. M. Golos, K. M. Fischer, Z. Eilon
doaj   +1 more source

LITHOSPHERE MANTLE DENSITY BENEATH THE SIBERIAN CRATON [PDF]

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2016
Cherepanova, Yulia, Artemieva, Irina
openaire   +2 more sources

Intraslab stress heterogeneity and continental mantle faulting revealed by the 2006 Pingtung offshore earthquake doublet

Communications Earth & Environment
The impact of lithospheric rheology and subduction dynamics on intraslab stress and earthquake characteristics, as well as the cause of the scarcity of continental mantle earthquakes remain debated.
Wan-Lin Hu, Eh Tan, Ryo Okuwaki, Yuji Yagi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Global Theory of the Earth's Dynamics : a Single Cause Can Explain All the Geophysical and Geological Phenomena

, 2005
After describing all the contradictions associated with the current Plate Tectonics theory, this paper proposes a model where a single cause can explain all geophysical and geological phenomena.
Rousseau, André
core   +1 more source