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 …

Serpentine in active subduction zones

B Reynard - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
Serpentinization is a key phenomenon for understanding the geodynamics of subduction
zones in the 10–200 km depth range. Serpentines are a major water carrier, and their …

Tschermak's substitution in antigorite and consequences for phase relations and water liberation in high-grade serpentinites

JA Padrón-Navarta, VL Sánchez-Vizcaíno, J Hermann… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
A model for the incorporation of alumina in FeO–MgO–Al 2 O 3–SiO 2–H 2 O (FMASH)
serpentinites has been developed by considering ideal Tschermak (Al 2 Mg− 1 Si− 1) solid …

UHP metamorphism documented in Ti-chondrodite-and Ti-clinohumite-bearing serpentinized ultramafic rocks from Chinese southwestern Tianshan

T Shen, J Hermann, L Zhang, Z Lü… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The southwestern Tianshan (China) metamorphic belt records high-pressure (HP)
to ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) conditions corresponding to a cold oceanic subduction-zone …

Lithological successions of the internal zones and flysch trough units of the betic chain

A Jabaloy Sánchez, A Martín-Algarra… - The Geology of Iberia: A …, 2019 - Springer
Mesozoic lithological successions of the Alborán domain record two rifting events. An initial
Triassic rifting stage is characterized by thick stratigraphic successions showing typical …

Unusually large shear wave anisotropy for chlorite in subduction zone settings

M Mookherjee, D Mainprice - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Using first principle simulations we calculated the elasticity of chlorite. At a density ρ~ 2.60 g
cm− 3, the elastic constant tensor reveals significant elastic anisotropy: VP~ 27%, VS1 …

Multistage CO2 sequestration in the subduction zone: Insights from exhumed carbonated serpentinites, SW Tianshan UHP belt, China

W Peng, L Zhang, MD Menzel, AV Brovarone… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate is regulated by the carbonate–silicate cycle in which slab outgassing of C into deep
fluids and volcanic degassing of CO 2 into the atmosphere are an important part. However …

Anisotropic thermal conductivity of antigorite along slab subduction impacts seismicity of intermediate-depth earthquakes

YH Chien, E Marzotto, YC Tsao, WP Hsieh - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Double seismic zones (DSZs) are a feature of some subducting slabs, where intermediate-
depth earthquakes (~ 70–300 km) align along two separate planes. The upper seismic …

Activation of dissolution‐precipitation creep causes weakening and viscous behavior in experimentally deformed antigorite

CJ Tulley, L ten Thij, AR Niemeijer… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Antigorite occurs at seismogenic depth along plate boundary shear zones, particularly in
subduction and oceanic transform settings, and has been suggested to control a low …

High‐P metamorphism of rodingites during serpentinite dehydration (Cerro del Almirez, Southern Spain): Implications for the redox state in subduction zones

C Laborda‐López… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The transition between antigorite‐serpentinite and chlorite‐harzburgite at Cerro del Almirez
(Betic Cordillera, Southern Spain) exceptionally marks in the field the front of antigorite …