What's down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor

WM Behr, R Bürgmann - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Deep-seated slow slip and tremor (SST), including slow slip events, episodic tremor and
slip, and low-frequency earthquakes, occur downdip of the seismogenic zone of numerous …

Geological constraints on the mechanisms of slow earthquakes

JD Kirkpatrick, Å Fagereng, DR Shelly - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The recognition of slow earthquakes in geodetic and seismological data has transformed the
understanding of how plate motions are accommodated at major plate boundaries. Slow …

Subducted carbon weakens the forearc mantle wedge in a warm subduction zone

R Oyanagi, A Okamoto - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Subducting oceanic plates carry large amounts of carbon into the Earth's interior. The
subducted carbon is mobilized by fluid and encounters ultramafic rocks in the mantle wedge …

Slab dehydration in warm subduction zones at depths of episodic slip and tremor

CB Condit, VE Guevara, JR Delph… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Non-volcanic tremor (NVT) and episodic slow slip events (SSEs) have been observed below
the seismogenic zone of relatively warm subduction zones for the past 20 years …

Transient permeability of a deep‐seated subduction interface shear zone

J Muñoz‐Montecinos, WM Behr - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Slow slip and tremor is observed along many subduction margins and is commonly linked to
fluid pressure variations and migration. Accurate estimates of porosity and permeability …

Fluid inclusion evidence for extreme overpressure induced by gas generation in sedimentary basins

X Wang, W Hu, Y Qiu, Y Liu, D Jia, J Cao, X Liu… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Formation and preservation of extremely high-pressure fluid in sedimentary basins is critical
to understanding petroleum accumulation and basin evolution; however, this issue remains …

Shattered veins elucidate brittle creep processes in the deep slow slip and tremor region

J Muñoz‐Montecinos, S Angiboust, A Garcia‐Casco… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Deep Slow Slip and Tremors (SSTs) are a combination of transient clusters of
tectonic tremors and slow slip associated with extremely elevated fluid pressures. SSTs are …

Slow slip in subduction zones: Reconciling deformation fabrics with instrumental observations and laboratory results

O Oncken, S Angiboust, G Dresen - Geosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cataclasites are a characteristic rock type found in drill cores from active faults as well as in
exposed fossil subduction faults. Here, cataclasites are commonly associated with evidence …

Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation

A Okamoto, R Oyanagi, K Yoshida, M Uno… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
More than one teramole of carbon per year is subducted as carbonate or carbonaceous
material. However, the influence of carbonation/decarbonation reactions on seismic activity …

A likely geological record of deep tremor and slow slip events from a subducted continental broken formation

F Giuntoli, G Viola - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Fluids in subduction zones play a key role in controlling seismic activity, drastically affecting
the rheology of rocks, triggering mineral reactions, and lowering the effective stress …