Subduction Zone Geodynamics (eBook)

Serge Lallemand, Francesca Funiciello (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2009
XIX, 275 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-87974-9 (ISBN)

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Subduction is a major process that plays a first-order role in the dynamics of the Earth. The sinking of cold lithosphere into the mantle is thought by many authors to be the most important source of energy for plates driving forces. It also deeply modifies the thermal and  chemical structure of the mantle, producing arc volcanism and is responsible for the release of most of the seismic energy on Earth. There has been considerable achievements done during the past decades regarding the complex interactions between the various processes acting in subduction zones. This volume contains a collection of contributions that were presented in June 2007 in Montpellier (France) during a conference that gave a state of the art panorama and discussed the perspectives about 'Subduction Zone Geodynamics'. The papers included in this special volume offer a unique multidisciplinary picture of the recent research on subduction zones geodynamics. They are organized into five main topics: 
Subduction zone geodynamics, Seismic tomography and anisotropy, Great subduction zone earthquakes, Seismogenic zone characterization,  Continental and ridge subduction processes.
Each of the 13 papers collected in the present volume is primarily concerned with one of these topics. However, it is important to highlight that papers always treat more than one topic so that all are related lighting on different aspects of the complex and fascinating subduction zones geodynamics.

Inhalt

Editors 3
Preface 5
Acknowledgements 10
Contents 11
Contributors 13
The Editors 16
I Subduction Zone Geodynamics 17
Subduction with Variations in Slab Buoyancy: Models and Application to the Banda and Apennine Systems 50
Continental Collision and the STEP-wise Evolution of Convergent Plate Boundaries: From Structure to Dynamics 61
II Seismic Tomography and Anisotropy 74
Seismic Anisotropy of Subduction Zone Minerals– Contribution of Hydrous Phases 75
Local Earthquake Tomography in the Southern Tyrrhenian Region of Italy: Geophysical and Petrological Inferences on the Subducting Lithosphere 97
III Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes 112
Effect of Subducting Seafloor Topography on the Rupture Characteristics of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes1 113
Great Earthquakes in Slow-Subduction, Low- Taper Margins 129
IV Seismogenic Zone Chaterization 144
Convergent Margin Structure in High-Quality Geophysical Images and Current Kinematic and Dynamic Models 145
Imaging Interseismic Locking at the Nankai Subduction Zone, Southwest Japan 166
V Continental and Ridge Subduction Processes 179
Exhumation Processes in Oceanic and Continental Subduction Contexts: A Review 180
Evolution of Subductions Indicated by Mélanges in Taiwan 211
Subduction of an Active Spreading Ridge Beneath Southern South America: A Review of the Cenozoic Geological Records from the Andean Foreland, Central Patagonia ( 46– 47° S) 230
Configuration of the Colombian Caribbean Margin: Constraints from 2D Seismic Reflection data and Potential Fields Interpretation 250

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.2.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Frontiers in Earth Sciences
• Reihe/Serie: Frontiers in Earth Sciences
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 275 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Earthquake • Geodynamics • Mineral Resources • Oceanic • Petrology • Seismic • seismogenic • Seismology • Structural Geology • subduction • subduction zones • Tectonics • volcanism
• ISBN-10: 3-540-87974-9 / 3540879749
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-87974-9 / 9783540879749