[HTML][HTML] Back-arc basins: A global view from geophysical synthesis and analysis

IM Artemieva - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
This global study of 31 off-shore back-arc basins and subbasins (BABs) identifies their
principal characteristics based on a broad spectrum of geophysical and subduction-related …

Geodynamic controls on magmatic arc migration and quiescence

GM Gianni, SP Luján - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

A new driving mechanism for backarc extension and backarc shortening through slab sinking induced toroidal and poloidal mantle flow: Results from dynamic …

WP Schellart, L Moresi - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present numerical subduction models to investigate overriding plate deformation at
subduction zones. All models show forearc shortening, resulting predominantly from shear …

A review of the geodynamic evolution of flat slab subduction in Mexico, Peru, and Chile

VC Manea, M Manea, L Ferrari, T Orozco-Esquivel… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Subducting plates around the globe display a large variability in terms of slab geometry,
including regions where smooth and little variation in subduction parameters is observed …

Variability of subducting slab morphologies in the mantle transition zone: Insight from petrological-thermomechanical modeling

ZH Li, T Gerya, JAD Connolly - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Variable morphologies of subducting slabs are observed in tomographic images of the
mantle transition zone (MTZ), where slabs appear to stagnate in the MTZ or enter the lower …

Collision of continental corner from 3-D numerical modeling

ZH Li, Z Xu, T Gerya, JP Burg - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Continental collision has been extensively investigated with 2-D numerical models
assuming infinitely wide plates or insignificant along-strike deformation in the third …

Seismic anisotropy around subduction zones: Insights from three‐dimensional modeling of upper mantle deformation and SKS splitting calculations

M Faccenda, FA Capitanio - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Inferring the circulation of the mantle around subducting plates from surface measurements
of shear wave splitting patterns remains to date elusive. To assist the interpretation of the …

A mantle convection perspective on global tectonics

N Coltice, M Gérault, M Ulvrová - Earth-science reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The concept of interplay between mantle convection and tectonics goes back to about a
century ago, with the proposal that convection currents in the Earth's mantle drive …

New GNSS and geological data from the Indo‐Burman subduction zone indicate active convergence on both a locked megathrust and the Kabaw Fault

B Oryan, PM Betka, MS Steckler… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Indo‐Burma subduction zone is a highly oblique subduction system where the
Indian plate is converging with the Eurasian plate. How strain is partitioned between the …

[HTML][HTML] Global correlations between maximum magnitudes of subduction zone interface thrust earthquakes and physical parameters of subduction zones

WP Schellart, N Rawlinson - Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2013 - Elsevier
The maximum earthquake magnitude recorded for subduction zone plate boundaries varies
considerably on Earth, with some subduction zone segments producing giant subduction …