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Kinematics of subduction and subduction‐induced flow in the upper mantle [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2004 Results of fluid dynamical experiments are presented to model the kinematics of lithospheric subduction in the upper mantle. The experiments model a dense high‐viscosity plate (subducting lithosphere) overlying a less dense low‐viscosity layer (upper mantle). The overriding lithosphere is not incorporated.
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On the initiation of subduction zones
pure and applied geophysics, 1989 Analysis of the relation between intraplate stress fields and lithospheric rheology leads to greater insight into the role that initiation of subduction plays in the tectonic evolution of the lithosphere. Numerical model studies show that if after a short evolution of a passive margin (time span a few tens of million years) subduction has not yet ...
Cloetingh, S.A.P.L. +3 more
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Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake
Nature Communications, 2018 Great megathrust earthquakes arise from the sudden release of strain accumulated during centuries of interseismic plate convergence. Here, the authors reconstruct interseismic strain accumulation since the 1960 Chile earthquake, finding a transient ...
Daniel Melnick +8 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 The Caroline Ridge (CR) subduction underneath the Philippine Sea Plate brings complex morphotectonic characteristics to the Yap Subduction Zone (YSZ) compared to other normal intra-oceanic subduction systems.
Peter Sangana, Qin Gao, Zilong Li
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The secret to starting subduction is ... subduction
, 2020 Caroline Eakin, ANU The Earth's biggest earthquakes and most explosive volcanoes occur at subduction zones" where a tectonic plate (the seafloor itself) sinks bank into the Earth's interior. We've been able to compile 100 million years of existing evidence for Subduction Zone Initiation (SZI).
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Subducting slabs: Jellyfishes in the Earth's mantle [PDF]
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2010 The constantly improving resolution of geophysical data, seismic tomography and seismicity in particular, shows that the lithosphere does not subduct as a slab of uniform thickness but is rather thinned in the upper mantle and thickened around the transition zone between the upper and lower mantle. This observation has traditionally been interpreted as
Loiselet, Christelle +6 more
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Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2021 The Ural mobile belt is an intracontinental epioceanic orogen that has already gone through all stages of the geodynamic development. Igneous rocks formed during each stage are important indicators for understanding the evolution of this belt and ...
V. V. Kholodnov +9 more
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Notable Impact of Paleotectonic Stress on Gold Mineralisation in the West Qinling Orogen
Geological Journal, EarlyView.By applying fuzzy clustering and multiple inverse methods, we systematically processed the data of vein and fault slip in this ore deposit to reveal the transition of orogenic geological environment and paleotectonic stress field. Our research results show two different stress states: the northwest–southeast extensional stress field and the northeast ...
Hongyan Wang +3 more
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Multiphase Tectonic Process With Slab Dynamics in the Northern East China Sea Shelf Basin
Geological Journal, EarlyView.Megasequence 1 characterised by Palaeocene extension and differential subsidence driven by the rollback of the subducting Izanagi Plate. Megasequence 2 records a kinematic reorganisation of the East Asian margin, transition from a rifting to a compressional regime.
Juhwan Woo +3 more
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Communications Earth & EnvironmentThe 2024 Mw 7.0 Wushi earthquake is the largest earthquake within the seismically active Tian Shan during the past three decades. Through integrated analyses of seismic, geodetic, and geologic data, here we investigate the fault structure corresponding ...
Xinzhong Yin +13 more
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