Subduction dynamics : from mantle flow to mega disasters / / Gabriele Morra [and four others], editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812001003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington District of Columbia ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : American Geophysical Union : , : Wiley, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-118-88894-4; 1-118-88886-3; 1-118-88899-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Collana: Geophysical Monograph ; ; 211
• Disciplina: 551.136
• Soggetti: Subduction zones
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INTRODUCTION: The Impact of Subduction Dynamics on Mantle Flow, Continental Tectonics, and Seismic Hazard""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Evidence from Caustic Waveform Modeling for Long Slab Thickening above the 660-km Discontinuity under Northeast Asia: Dynamic Implications""; ""1.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""1.2. CAUSTIC WAVEFORM MODELING AND DATA SOURCES""; ""1.3. SLAB IMAGE IN THE MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE""; ""1.4. UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES OF THICKNESS OF SLAB""; ""1.5. DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF SLAB THICKENING""; ""1.6. DISCUSSION AND DYNAMIC IMPLICATION""""1.7. CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 The Continental Collision Process Deduced from the Metamorphic Pattern in the Dabie-Hongseong and Himalayan Collision Belts""; ""2.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2. METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION ALONG THE DABIE-HONGSEONG COLLISION BELT IN NORTHEAST ASIA""; ""2.3. THE DABIE-SULU COLLISION BELT BETWEEN THE NCB AND SCB IN CHINA""; ""2.4. THE EXTENSION OF THE DABIE-SULU BELT IN CHINA INTO THE HONGSEONG AREA IN KOREA""; ""2.5. THE LATE-PERMIAN TO TRIASSIC COLLISION BELT IN KOREA""; ""2.6. THE EXTENSION OF THE DABIE-HONGSEONG COLLISION BELT INTO JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA""""2.7. THE METAMORPHIC TREND ALONG THE DABIE-HONGSEONG COLLISION BELT""; ""2.8. METAMORPHIC EVOLUTION ALONG THE HIMALAYAN COLLISION BELT""; ""2.9. THE METAMORPHISM IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYAN COLLISION BELT""; ""2.10. THE METAMORPHISM IN THE MIDEASTERN HIMALAYAN COLLISION BELT""; ""2.11. THE METAMORPHISM IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYAN COLLISION BELT""; ""2.12. THE METAMORPHIC PATTERN ALONG THE HIMALAYA COLLISION BELT""; ""2.13. DISCUSSION AND TECTONIC IMPLICATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 A New Tectonic Model for the Genesis of Adakitic Arc Magmatism in Cretaceous East Asia""""3.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""3.2. NUMERICAL MODELSs""; ""3.3. RESULTS""; ""3.4. DISCUSSION""; ""3.5. CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Incoming Plate Variations along the Northern Manila Trench: Implications for Seafloor Morphology and Seismicity""; ""4.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""4.2. GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK""; ""4.3. INCOMING PLATE VARIATION""; ""4.4. DISCUSSION""; ""4.5. CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Source of the Cenozoic Volcanism in Central Asia""; ""5.1. INTRODUCTION""""5.2. PETROLOGICAL SETTING""; ""5.3. BUOYANCY DRIVEN VISCOUS INSTABILITIES""; ""5.4. NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS""; ""5.5. MODEL RESULTS""; ""5.6. DISCUSSION""; ""5.7. CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""6 Influence of Variable Thermal Expansivity and Conductivity on Deep Subduction""; ""6.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""6.2. METHOD AND MODEL""; ""6.3. RESULTS""; ""6.4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 Slab-driven Mantle Weakening and Rapid Mantle Flow""; ""7.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""7.2. METHODS""; ""7.3. RESULTS""; ""7.4. DISCUSSION""; ""7.5. CONCLUSIONS""