Convective removal of lower lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau can account for a
rapid increase in the mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau of 1000 m or more in a few …

To address the question of the initiation and mechanisms involved in the process of
subduction zone formation, we explored most of the available evidence for the subduction …

An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structures is an introduction to
seismology and its role in the earth sciences, and is written for advanced undergraduate and …

Variations in sea-floor depth and heat flow with age provide the main constraints on the
thermal structure and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere. Joint fitting of heat flow and …

Recent studies of the focal depths of earthquakes in old continental lithosphere have shown
that they are almost entirely confined to the crust. Except where recent subduction of oceanic …

Subduction thrust faults generate earthquakes over a limited depth range. They are aseismic
in their seaward updip portions and landward downdip of a critical point. The seaward …

Historic records of the last 300 years reveal two great interplate earthquakes (1833, MW=
8¾ 1861, MW= 8¼–8½), which ruptured major segments of the Sumatra fore arc in western …

Constraints on the seismogenic portion of the subduction thrust zone along the Cascadia
margin are provided by the thermal regime. The zone of stick‐slip “locked” behavior where …

During the quadrennial term 1979–1982, major advances have been made in our
knowledge of the rheology of the oceanic lithosphere by the skillful combination of …

We review recent results concerning the rheology of the lithosphere with special attention to
the following topics: 1) the flexure of the oceanic lithosphere, 2) deformation of the …