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 …

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 …

Tracking deep sediment underplating in a fossil subduction margin: Implications for interface rheology and mass and volatile recycling

CM Tewksbury‐Christle, WM Behr… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The architecture and mechanical properties of the subduction interface impact large‐scale
subduction processes, including mass and volatile recycling, upper‐plate orogenesis, and …

Grain-size-evolution controls on lithospheric weakening during continental rifting

JB Ruh, L Tokle, WM Behr - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Variation in the effective strength of the lithosphere allows for active plate tectonics and is
permitted by different deformation mechanisms operating in the crust and upper mantle. The …

The rise and demise of deep accretionary wedges: A long-term field and numerical modeling perspective

S Angiboust, A Menant, T Gerya, O Oncken - Geosphere, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Several decades of field, geophysical, analogue, and numerical modeling investigations
have enabled documentation of the wide range of tectonic transport processes in …

Atypical syn-collisional wedges at thrust fronts: Their tectonic and gravity-driven development, and interpretation-related controversies

CK Morley - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Examples of atypical syn-collisional wedges from offshore Sabah and Palawan, Indo-Burma
Ranges, Gibraltar Arc, Banda Arc resemble accretionary prisms, but formed over subducted …

[HTML][HTML] Deformation history and processes during accretion of seamounts in subduction zones: The example of the Durkan Complex (Makran, SE Iran)

E Barbero, M Di Rosa, L Pandolfi, M Delavari… - Geoscience …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Durkan Complex is a tectonic element of the Makran Accretionary Prism (SE
Iran) that includes fragments of Late Cretaceous seamounts. In this paper, the results of map …

The distinct morphologic signature of underplating and seamounts in accretionary prisms, insights from thermomechanical modeling applied to Coastal Iranian …

S Pajang, MM Khatib, M Heyhat, N Cubas, E Bessiere… - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The active structures of the Iranian Makran, especially the presence of normal faults, vary
laterally in the upper plate of the subduction zone, and their relationship with the deep …

Low-strength shear zone in the western Makran subduction zone, southeastern Iran: insights from a receiver function analysis

S Abbasi, K Motaghi, FP Lucente… - Geophysical Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
To understand the seismic hazard of a subduction zone, it is necessary to know the
geometry, location and mechanical characteristics of the interplate boundary below which …

The Bajgan Complex revealed as a Cretaceous ophiolite-bearing subduction complex: A key to unravel the geodynamics of Makran (southeast Iran)

L Pandolfi, E Barbero, M Marroni, M Delavari… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the Makran area, a wide accretionary wedge is originated by the north-dipping subduction
of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere. The rear of the accretionary wedge is represented …