Stagnant slab: a review

Y Fukao, M Obayashi, T Nakakuki… - Annual Review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
A stagnant slab is a subducted slab of oceanic lithosphere subhorizontally deflected above,
across, or below the 660 km discontinuity. This phenomenon has now been widely …

Water in the slab: A trilogy

M Faccenda - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The geological and geophysical phenomena associated with water in the slab can be
grouped into three different categories: those related to 1) the storage of water in the oceanic …

[图书][B] Lithosphere: an interdisciplinary approach

IM Artemʹeva - 2011 - books.google.com
Presenting a coherent synthesis of lithosphere studies, this book covers a range of
geophysical methods (seismic reflection, refraction, and receiver function methods; elastic …

[HTML][HTML] Is there a big mantle wedge under eastern Tibet?

J Lei, D Zhao, X Xu, YG Xu, M Du - Physics of the Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The big mantle wedge (BMW) model was originally proposed to explain the origin of the
intraplate Changbaishan volcano in NE China where the subducting Pacific slab becomes …

Hot mantle upwelling across the 660 beneath Yellowstone

B Schmandt, K Dueker, E Humphreys… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
P-to-s receiver functions mapped to depth through P and S body-wave tomography models
image continuous 410 and 660km discontinuities beneath the area covered by USArray …

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 …

Mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the contiguous United States

SS Gao, KH Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Using over 310,000 high‐quality radial receiver functions recorded by the USArray
and other seismic stations in the contiguous United States, the depths of the 410 km and 660 …

Slab stagnation due to a reduced viscosity layer beneath the mantle transition zone

W Mao, S Zhong - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
The linear structures of seismically fast anomalies, often interpreted as subducted slabs, in
the southern Asia and circum-Pacific lower mantle provided strong evidence for the whole …

The role of solid–solid phase transitions in mantle convection

M Faccenda, L Dal Zilio - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
With changing pressure and temperature conditions, downwelling and upwelling crustal and
mantle rocks experience several solid–solid phase transitions that affect the mineral …

Constraints on mantle viscosity from intermediate‐wavelength geoid anomalies in mantle convection models with plate motion history

W Mao, S Zhong - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's long‐and intermediate‐wavelength geoid anomalies are surface expressions of
mantle convection and are sensitive to mantle viscosity. While previous studies of the geoid …