Reevaluating carbon fluxes in subduction zones, what goes down, mostly comes up

PB Kelemen, CE Manning - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2015 - pnas.org
Carbon fluxes in subduction zones can be better constrained by including new estimates of
carbon concentration in subducting mantle peridotites, consideration of carbonate solubility …

[HTML][HTML] Lithosphere thickness controls the extent of mantle melting, depth of melt extraction and basalt compositions in all tectonic settings on Earth–A review and …

Y Niu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Basalts and basaltic rocks are the most abundant igneous rocks on the earth and their
petrologic and geochemical studies have formed our knowledge base on the thermal …

Mesozoic mafic magmatism in North China: Implications for thinning and destruction of cratonic lithosphere

Y Zheng, Z Xu, Z Zhao, L Dai - Science China Earth Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The North China Craton (NCC) has been thinned from> 200 km to< 100 km in its
eastern part. The ancient subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) has been replaced by …

The subduction plate interface: Rock record and mechanical coupling (from long to short timescales)

P Agard, A Plunder, S Angiboust, G Bonnet, J Ruh - Lithos, 2018 - Elsevier
Short-and long-term processes at or close to the subduction plate interface (eg, mineral
transformations, fluid release, seismicity and more generally deformation) might be more …

Subduction factory: 4. Depth‐dependent flux of H2O from subducting slabs worldwide

PE Van Keken, BR Hacker… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A recent global compilation of the thermal structure of subduction zones is used to predict
the metamorphic facies and H2O content of downgoing slabs. Our calculations indicate that …

The global range of subduction zone thermal models

EM Syracuse, PE van Keken, GA Abers - Physics of the Earth and …, 2010 - Elsevier
We model 56 segments of subduction zones using kinematically defined slabs based on
updated geometries from Syracuse and Abers (2006) to obtain a comprehensive suite of …

The transport of water in subduction zones

YF Zheng, RX Chen, Z Xu, SB Zhang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2016 - Springer
The transport of water from subducting crust into the mantle is mainly dictated by the stability
of hydrous minerals in subduction zones. The thermal structure of subduction zones is a key …

The Role of H2O in Subduction Zone Magmatism

TL Grove, CB Till, MJ Krawczynski - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Water is a key ingredient in the generation of magmas in subduction zones. This review
focuses on the role of water in the generation of magmas in the mantle wedge, the factors …

Deformation cycles of subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth

K Wang, Y Hu, J He - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Subduction zones produce the largest earthquakes. Over the past two decades, space
geodesy has revolutionized our view of crustal deformation between consecutive …

The global range of subduction zone thermal structures from exhumed blueschists and eclogites: Rocks are hotter than models

SC Penniston-Dorland, MJ Kohn… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
The maximum-pressure Psingle bondT conditions (P max–T) and prograde Psingle bondT
paths of exhumed subduction-related metamorphic rocks are compared to predictions of …