Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc

GF Cooper, CG Macpherson, JD Blundy, B Maunder… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Oceanic lithosphere carries volatiles, notably water, into the mantle through subduction at
convergent plate boundaries. This subducted water exercises control on the production of …

Fracture-mediated deep seawater flow and mantle hydration on oceanic transform faults

C Prigent, JM Warren, AH Kohli, C Teyssier - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fluid-rock interaction on oceanic transform faults (OTFs) is important for both the
deformation behavior of the lithosphere and volatile cycling in the Earth. Rocks deformed …

Slab to back-arc to arc: Fluid and melt pathways through the mantle wedge beneath the Lesser Antilles

SP Hicks, L Bie, CA Rychert, N Harmon, S Goes… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Volatiles expelled from subducted plates promote melting of the overlying warm mantle,
feeding arc volcanism. However, debates continue over the factors controlling melt …

Eruptive dynamics reflect crustal structure and mantle productivity beneath volcanoes

O Higgins, L Caricchi - Geology, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Volcanoes exhibit a wide range of eruptive and geochemical behavior, which has significant
implications for their associated risk. The suggested first-order drivers of intervolcanic …

Dehydration of subducting slow-spread oceanic lithosphere in the Lesser Antilles

M Paulatto, M Laigle, A Galve, P Charvis… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Subducting slabs carry water into the mantle and are a major gateway in the global
geochemical water cycle. Fluid transport and release can be constrained with seismological …

Roughness characteristics of oceanic seafloor prior to subduction in relation to the seismogenic potential of subduction zones

S Lallemand, M Peyret, E van Rijsingen… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a new approach to characterize the seafloor roughness seaward of the
trenches, as a proxy for estimating the roughness of the subduction interface. We consider …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging slab-transported fluids and their deep dehydration from seismic velocity tomography in the Lesser Antilles subduction zone

L Bie, S Hicks, A Rietbrock, S Goes, J Collier… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Volatiles play a pivotal role in subduction zone evolution, yet their pathways remain poorly
constrained. Studying the Lesser Antilles subduction zone can yield new constraints, where …

Lateral variation in crustal structure along the Lesser Antilles arc from petrology of crustal xenoliths and seismic receiver functions

E Melekhova, D Schlaphorst, J Blundy… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
We reconstruct crustal structure along the Lesser Antilles island arc using an inversion
approach combining constraints from petrology of magmatic crustal xenoliths and seismic …

The Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake (Chile): Preseismic and postseismic activity associated with hydrated slab structures

P Poli, A Maksymowicz, S Ruiz - Geology, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The accumulated stress in subduction zones is discharged with earthquake and aseismic
activity; the latter is hosted in rheological complex regions, characterized by high pore fluid …

Controlling factors of seismicity and geometry in double seismic zones

MA Florez, GA Prieto - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Double seismic zones are ubiquitous features of subduction zones, where seismicity is
distributed along two layers separated by a region with significantly less seismic activity …