[HTML][HTML] Atlas of the underworld: Slab remnants in the mantle, their sinking history, and a new outlook on lower mantle viscosity

DG Van der Meer, DJJ Van Hinsbergen, W Spakman - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Across the entire mantle we interpret 94 positive seismic wave-speed anomalies as
subducted lithosphere and associate these slabs with their geological record. We document …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic imaging of the deep structure under the Chinese volcanoes: An overview

J Lei, F **e, Q Fan, M Santosh - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2013 - Elsevier
The rapid development of provincial seismic networks and portable seismic arrays has
provided a good opportunity to image the detailed 3-D seismic structure of the upper mantle …

Subducted slabs stagnant above, penetrating through, and trapped below the 660 km discontinuity

Y Fukao, M Obayashi - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A new P wave tomographic model of the mantle was constructed using more than 10 million
travel times. The finite‐frequency effect of seismic rays was taken into account by calculating …

The impact of a tear in the subducted Indian plate on the Miocene geology of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen

R Wang, RF Weinberg, DC Zhu, ZQ Hou… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Yadong-Gulu Rift, cutting across the Gangdese belt and Himalayan terranes, is
currently associated with a thermal anomaly in the mantle and crustal melting at 15–20 km …

Finite frequency whole mantle P wave tomography: Improvement of subducted slab images

M Obayashi, J Yoshimitsu, G Nolet… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new whole mantle P wave tomographic model GAP_P4. We used two data
groups; short‐period data of more than 10 million picked‐up onset times and long‐period …

Pn anisotropic tomography and dynamics under eastern Tibetan plateau

J Lei, Y Li, F **e, J Teng, G Zhang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new anisotropic tomographic model of the uppermost mantle around eastern
Tibet using Pn traveltime data from a newly deployed temporary seismic array and recent …

Stress‐driven relaxation of heterogeneous upper mantle and time‐dependent afterslip following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Y Hu, R Bürgmann, N Uchida… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of postseismic deformation following great subduction zone earthquakes is
complicated by the combined effects of viscoelastic relaxation of earthquake‐induced …

Along‐strike variation in the initiation timing of the north‐trending rifts in southern Tibet as revealed from the Yadong‐Gulu rift

S Bian, J Gong, AV Zuza, R Yang, L Chen, J Ji, X Yu… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A key issue in the Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan plateau is the geodynamic drivers for
north‐trending rifting in southern Tibet. Recent studies have demonstrated an eastward …

Mantle Dynamics of Western Pacific and East Asia: New Insights from P Wave Anisotropic Tomography

J Ma, Y Tian, D Zhao, C Liu, T Liu - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic anisotropy records past and present tectonic deformations and provides important
constraints for understanding the structure and dynamics of the Earth's interior. In this work …

Slab morphology and deformation beneath Izu-Bonin

H Zhang, F Wang, R Myhill, H Guo - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Seismic tomography provides unique constraints on the morphology, the deformation, and
(indirectly) the rheology of subducting slabs. We use teleseismic double-difference P-wave …