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Slab tearing and its surface signals controlled by passive margin strength [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSlab tearing, the lateral detachment of subducting oceanic slab from continental lithosphere, is widely inferred from seismic tomography, yet its surface expressions in mountain belts and adjacent foreland basins remain ambiguous and often contradictory.
Giridas Maiti +4 more
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Volcanism in slab tear faults is larger than in island-arcs and back-arcs [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 The volcanism of subduction settings concentrates in island-arcs and back-arc basins. Here, the authors show that the lithospheric tear faults bounding roll-backing slabs may focus huge volcanism with a volume of the erupted products exceeding that of ...
Luca Cocchi +3 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023 Torn and bent slabs are usually associated with flat‐slab subduction where the descending plate develops a horizontal geometry beneath the overlying continent.
Xiaowen Liu
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Mantle flow through a tear in the Nazca slab inferred from shear wave splitting
Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 A tear in the subducting Nazca slab is located between the end of the Pampean flat slab and normally subducting oceanic lithosphere. Tomographic studies suggest mantle material flows through this opening.
Megan Anderson +2 more
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Insights from the P Wave Travel Time Tomography in the Upper Mantle Beneath the Central Philippines
Remote Sensing, 2021 In this paper, we present a high resolution 3-D tomographic model of the upper mantle obtained from a large number of teleseismic travel time data from the ISC in the central Philippines.
Huiyan Shi +5 more
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Slab Tearing Underneath the Bransfield Strait, Antarctica
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 We conduct a P‐wave receiver function analysis of the Bransfield Strait (West Antarctica) to determine the lithospheric structure of this back‐arc basin, thanks to 31 temporary and permanent stations. Our main finding is a 15 km tear of the Phoenix slab,
J. A. Parera‐Portell +4 more
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Deep subduction of the Philippine Sea slab and formation of slab window beneath central Japan
Earth, Planets and Space, 2023 The geometry of the Philippine Sea slab (PHS) subducting beneath the Japanese islands has been imaged to 400 km depth beneath the Kyushu and Chugoku regions, whereas the PHS slab geometry beneath the Hokuriku region has only been determined to ~ 140 km ...
Kazuki Miyazaki +3 more
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Transfer zones in Mediterranean back-arc regions and tear faults
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2021 Slab tearing induces localized deformations in the overriding plates of subduction zones and transfer zones accommodating differential retreat in back-arc regions.
Jolivet Laurent +9 more
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Seismic anisotropy across Adria plate, from the Apennines to the Dinarides
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The Adria microplate has the particular feature to be involved in two subduction systems with slab dipping in opposite directions, one toward west beneath the Apennines and the other to the east beneath the Dinarides.
S. Salimbeni +6 more
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The dynamics of laterally variable subductions: laboratory models applied to the Hellenides [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2013 We designed three-dimensional dynamically self-consistent laboratory models of subduction to analyse the relationships between overriding plate deformation and subduction dynamics in the upper mantle.
B. Guillaume +3 more
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