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Plate coupling and strain in the far western Aleutian arc modeled from GPS data
Geophysical Research Letters, 2017 The Aleutian and Kuril‐Kamchatka arcs meet at a triple junction of the Pacific (PAC), Bering (BER), and North American (NAM) plates. We invert GPS observations from the westernmost Aleutian (Komandorsky) Islands and Kamchatka for the fault locking depth ...
Mikhail G. Kogan +7 more
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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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Onset of double subduction controls plate motion reorganisation
Nature CommunicationsFace-to-face double subduction systems, in which two oceanic plates subduct toward each other, are essential elements of plate tectonics. Two subduction zones in such systems are typically uneven in age and their spatially and temporally variable ...
Kuidi Zhang, Jie Liao, Taras Gerya
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Do submesoscale frontal processes ventilate the oxygen minimum zone off Peru?
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016 The Peruvian upwelling system encompasses the most intense and shallowest oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) in the ocean. This system shows pronounced submesoscale activity like filaments and fronts.
S. Thomsen +5 more
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Ophiolites in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt record Cambrian subduction initiation processes
Communications Earth & EnvironmentSubduction initiation remains elusive because no present example exists. Ophiolites formed over nascent subduction zones in the past provide the key to constraining the processes of subduction initiation.
Mingshuai Zhu +10 more
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Tomographic Imaging of Slab Segmentation and Deformation in the Greater Antilles
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2018 We present a new tomographic P wave model of the upper mantle in the east Caribbean region. The model was built using 3‐D finite frequency sensitivity kernels and ~20,000 teleseismic P and PP traveltime residuals from 535 events recorded across 130 ...
Cooper W. Harris +2 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsIn the regime of plate tectonics, the subduction of an oceanic plate generally terminates with the collision and accretion of continental terranes. Then, a new subduction zone may form in the neighboring oceanic plates, which is defined as the terrane ...
Fengyuan Cui, Zhong‐Hai Li
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Journal of Economic Geology, 2017 Introduction The Jebale-Barez Plutonic Complex (JBPC) is composed of many intrusive bodies and is located in the southeastern province of Kerman on the longitude of the 57◦ 45 ' east to 58◦ 00' and Northern latitudes 28◦ 30' to 29◦ 00'.
Jamal Rasouli +2 more
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Thick-Skinned and Thin-Skinned Tectonics: A Global Perspective
Geosciences, 2017 This paper gives an overview of the large-scale tectonic styles encountered in orogens worldwide. Thin-skinned and thick-skinned tectonics represent two end member styles recognized in mountain ranges.
O. Adrian Pfiffner
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Multiple Slabs and Complex Mantle Flows in the Molucca Sea Subduction Zone
Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsThe Molucca Sea subduction zone is unique for its active divergent double‐subducted slab located in the north of the Java and Banda subduction zones. The spatial proximity of these subduction zones would cause a complex mantle flow field.
Tianmeng Yuan +4 more
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