Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Auer, A Billi… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean offers a unique opportunity to study the driving forces of tectonic
deformation within a complex mobile belt. Lithospheric dynamics are affected by slab …

Seismic properties and anisotropy of the continental crust: Predictions based on mineral texture and rock microstructure

BSG Almqvist, D Mainprice - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Progress in seismic methodology and ambitious large‐scale seismic projects are enabling
high‐resolution imaging of the continental crust. The ability to constrain interpretations of …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic imaging of Northwest Pacific and East Asia: New insight into volcanism, seismogenesis and geodynamics

D Zhao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies on seismic imaging of the Northwest Pacific and East Asian region are
reviewed. High-resolution tomographic images reveal significant lateral heterogeneities in …

Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Jolivet, M Keskin - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Middle East region represents a key site within the Tethyan domain where
continental break-up, collision, backarc extension and escape tectonics are kinematically …

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 …

Azimuthal anisotropy tomography of the Southeast Asia subduction system

Y Hua, D Zhao, YG Xu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A detailed 3‐D model of P wave isotropic velocity and azimuthal anisotropy beneath SE Asia
is obtained by jointly inverting local earthquake arrival times and teleseismic relative travel …

A review of the geodynamic evolution of flat slab subduction in Mexico, Peru, and Chile

VC Manea, M Manea, L Ferrari, T Orozco-Esquivel… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Subducting plates around the globe display a large variability in terms of slab geometry,
including regions where smooth and little variation in subduction parameters is observed …

Mantle Dynamics of Western Pacific and East Asia: New Insights from P Wave Anisotropic Tomography

J Ma, Y Tian, D Zhao, C Liu, T Liu - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic anisotropy records past and present tectonic deformations and provides important
constraints for understanding the structure and dynamics of the Earth's interior. In this work …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic anisotropy tomography: New insight into subduction dynamics

D Zhao, S Yu, X Liu - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Body-wave and surface-wave tomography, receiver-function imaging, and shear-wave
splitting measurements have shown that seismic anisotropy and heterogeneity coexist in all …

Crystal preferred orientations of olivine, orthopyroxene, serpentine, chlorite, and amphibole, and implications for seismic anisotropy in subduction zones: a review

H Jung - Geosciences Journal, 2017 - Springer
This study provides a comprehensive review of the crystal preferred orientation (CPO) of
olivine and orthopyroxene in the upper mantle, and of several hydrous minerals in the …