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Origin and consequences of western Mediterranean subduction, rollback, and slab segmentation [PDF]

, 2014
The western Mediterranean recorded subduction rollback, slab segmentation and separation. Here we address the questions of what caused Oligocene rollback initiation, and how its subsequent evolution split up an originally coherent fore arc into circum ...
Vissers, R.L.M., Structural geology and EM, ERC-SINK: Subduction Initiation reconstructed from Neotethyan Kinematics, Mantle dynamics & theoretical geophysics, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Spakman, W.   +5 more
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Kinematic Boundary Conditions Favouring Subduction Initiation at Passive Margins Over Subduction at Mid-oceanic Ridges [PDF]

, 2021
International audienceWe perform numerical modelling to simulate the shortening of an oceanic basin and the adjacent continental margins in order to discuss the relationship between compressional stresses acting on the lithosphere and the time dependent ...
Beekman, F., Auzemery, Antoine, Willingshofer, Ernst, Willingshofer, E., Auzemery, A., Duretz, Thibault, Duretz, T., Yamato, Philippe, Yamato, P.   +8 more
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Complex anisotropy beneath the Peruvian flat slab from frequency-dependent, multiple-phase shear wave splitting analysis [PDF]

, 2013
Flat or shallow subduction is a relatively widespread global occurrence, but the dynamics remain poorly understood. In particular, the interaction between flat slabs and the surrounding mantle flow has yet to be studied in detail.
Long, Maureen D., Eakin, Caroline M.
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Control of Subduction Zone Age and Size on Flat Slab Subduction

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020
Flat slab subduction is an enigmatic style of subduction where the slab attains a horizontal orientation for up to several hundred kilometers below the base of the overriding plate.
Wouter Pieter Schellart
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Subduction Duration and Slab Dip

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020
The dip angles of slabs are among the clearest characteristics of subduction zones, but the factors that control them remain obscure. Here, slab dip angles and subduction parameters, including subduction duration, the nature of the overriding plate, slab
Jiashun Hu, Michael Gurnis
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TerraceM-2: A Matlab® Interface for Mapping and Modeling Marine and Lacustrine Terraces

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2019
The morphology of marine and lacustrine terraces has been largely used to measure past sea- and lake-level positions and estimate vertical deformation in a wealth of studies focused on climate and tectonic processes.
Julius Jara-Muñoz, Julius Jara-Muñoz, Daniel Melnick, Daniel Melnick, Kevin Pedoja, Manfred R. Strecker   +5 more
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What Controls Maximum Magnitudes of Giant Subduction Earthquakes?

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020
Giant earthquakes with magnitudes above 8.5 occur only in subduction zones. Despite the developments made in observing large subduction zone earthquakes with geophysical instruments, the factors controlling the maximum size of these earthquakes are still
Iskander A. Muldashev, Stephan V. Sobolev   +1 more
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Slab pull, slab weakening, and their relation to deep intra-slab seismicity [PDF]

, 2005
Subduction zone seismicity is highly variable. Great earthquakes occur at few subduction zones around the world, with significant variation in size and frequency of deep events. Interactions between overriding and subducting plates and slab pull strength
Lithgow‐bertelloni, Carolina, Carolina Lithgow-bertelloni, Bilek, Susan L., Bilek, SL, Conrad, CP, Susan L. Bilek, Clinton P. Conrad, Lithgow-Bertelloni, C, Conrad, Clinton P.   +8 more
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A record of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc [PDF]

, 2015
The initiation of tectonic plate subduction into the mantle is poorly understood. If subduction is induced by the push of a distant mid-ocean ridge or subducted slab pull, we expect compression and uplift of the overriding plate. In contrast, spontaneous
Arculus, Richard J., Sena, Clara, Gurnis, M., Ivan P. Savov, Loudin, L.C., Kusano, Y., van der Land, C., Bogus, K.A., Jiang, F, Gene M. Yogodzinski, Hamada, Morihisa, Li, He, Loudin, LC, Kender, Sev, Drab, Laureen, Marco Maffione, Meffre, Sebastién, Savov, Ivan P., Hickey-Vargas, Rosemary, Yuki Kusano, do Monte Guerra, R, Neuhaus, Martin, Guerra, RDM, Alexandre N. Bandini-Maeder, Ishizuka, Osamu, Richard J. Arculus, Mohammed H. Aljahdali, Maffione, M, Barth, A.P., Aljahdali, MH, Rosemary Hickey-Vargas, Bandini, A.N., Savov, IP, Hickey-Vargas, R, Marsaglia, K.M., Guerra, Rodrigo do Monte, McCarthy, A., Rodrigo do Monte Guerra, Kanayama, K, van der Land, C, Jiang, F., Maffione, M., Kender, S., Hickey-Vargas, R., Morihisa Hamada, Kara A. Bogus, Bogus, Kara A., Meffre, S., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z, Zhang, Zhaohui, Tepley, Frank J., III, TFJ, Ishizuka, O, Kusano, Yuki, Anders McCarthy, Andrew P. Barth, Tepley III, F.J., Gurnis, M, Bogus, KA, Hamada, N., Meffre, S, Aljahdali, Mohammed H., Arculus, RJ, Kusano, Y, Morris, A., Zhaohui Zhang, Philipp A. Brandl, do Monte Guerra, R., Maffione, Marco; id_orcid, Brandl, PA, Neuhaus, M, Ishizuka, O., do Monte Guerra, Rodrigo, Lorne C. Loudin, Drab, L, Clara Sena, Frank J. Tepley III, Osamu Ishizuka, Yogodzinski, G.M., Hamada, M, Kyoko Kanayama, Brandl, Philipp A., He Li, Sev Kender, Bandini-Maeder, Alexandre N., Tepley, FJ, McCarthy, A, Sena, C, McCarthy, Anders, Martin Neuhaus, Gurnis, Michael, Kanayama, Kyoko, Kanayama, K., Barth, Andrew P., Jiang, Fuqing, Tepley III, Frank J., Mantle dynamics & theoretical geophysics, ERC-SINK: Subduction Initiation reconstructed from Neotethyan Kinematics, Maffione, Marco, Savov, I.P., Li, H, Kathleen M. Marsaglia, Yogodzinski, GM, Bandini-Maeder, AN, Marsaglia, KM, Michael Gurnis, Kender, S, van der Land, Cees, Laureen Drab, Arculus, R., Sena Da Silva, C.E., Morris, A, Sebastién Meffre, van, der Land C, Ma ffione, M, Yogodzinski, Gene M., Fuqing Jiang, Loudin, Lorne C., Cees van der Land, Morris, Antony, Barth, AP, Tepley III, FJ, Brandl, P.A., Marsaglia, Kathleen M., Li, H., Aljahdali, M.H., Tepley, Frank J., III, Antony Morris   +128 more
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Recent Crustal Deformation in West-Central South America [PDF]

, 2003
I use interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to create maps of crustal deformation along the coast and within the volcanic arc of central South America. I image deformation associated with six subduction zone earthquakes, four volcanic centers,
Pritchard, Matthew Earl
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