Rapid shear zone weakening during subduction initiation. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ALi Y, Gurnis M.
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Emergence of Subsurface Warming in the Southern Ocean Gateway Between New Zealand and Antarctica
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 12, 28 June 2026.Abstract We analyze temperature variability in the surface and intermediate layers of the Southern Ocean from 1994 to 2025 using a 30‐year summertime record of Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) measurements collected along the PX36 line across the New Zealand–Antarctica chokepoint of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC).
A. I. Ferola +7 more
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Diversities of chromite mineralization induced by chemo-thermal evolution of the mantle during subduction initiation. [PDF]
Nat CommunZhang PF +6 more
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Understanding the formation of new subduction zones is important because they have been proposed as the main driving mechanism for plate tectonics and they are crucial for geochemical cycles on Earth.
Sandrine Ritter (17967389) +3 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 12, 28 June 2026.Abstract The physical conditions governing earthquake initiation are largely unknown, particularly in the minutes to seconds preceding rupture. While there is geodetic and seismic evidence of precursory activity in the hours to weeks prior to large earthquakes, the observational evidence immediately preceding the earthquake rupture is limited and ...
A. M. McPherson, C. Tape, Y. Kaneko
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Publisher Correction: Diversities of chromite mineralization induced by chemo-thermal evolution of the mantle during subduction initiation. [PDF]
Nat CommunZhang PF +6 more
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Postmagmatic Tectonic Evolution of the Outer Izu-Bonin Forearc Revealed by Sediment Basin Structure and Vein Microstructure Analysis: Implications for a 15 Ma Hiatus Between Pacific Plate Subduction Initiation and Forearc Extension. [PDF]
Geochem Geophys Geosyst, 2019 Kurz W +9 more
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Understanding the formation of new subduction zones is important because they have been proposed as the main driving mechanism for plate tectonics and they are crucial for geochemical cycles on Earth.
Sandrine Ritter (17967389) +3 more
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Thermal Structure Beneath the Himalayan Orogen Revealed by Pn‐Wave Receiver Function Imaging
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 12, 28 June 2026.Abstract The Himalayan orogen formed through convergence between the Indian and Eurasian plates, and parts of the subducting Indian crust were impeded by the Lhasa terrane and accreted into the orogen. However, whether the Indian lower crust was stripped from the downgoing plate and incorporated into the orogen, and by what mechanism, remain debated ...
Liangyu Zhang +3 more
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Seismic Evidence for Slab Tearing Beneath the Indo‐Myanmar Subduction Zone
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 12, 28 June 2026.Abstract Slab tearing has been increasingly recognized as a key geodynamic process influencing the evolution of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. However, whether, where and how the subducted Indian slab beneath the Indo‐Myanmar subduction zone has been torn remains poorly constrained.
Shun Yang +9 more
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