Eastward subduction of oceanic tectonic plates has shaped the geologic history of western
North America over the past 150 million years,,,. The mountain-building and volcanism that …

Since the advent of plate tectonics different global reference frames have been used to
describe the motion of plates and trenches. The difference in plate motion and trench …

Statistical analysis of modern oceanic subduction zone parameters, such as the age of a
downgoing plate or the absolute plate motions, is performed in order to investigate which …

It is well recognized that active arc volcanism at nearly all subduction zones requires
temperatures greater than 1200° C in the subarc mantle, despite the underthrusting cool …

Arc volcanism is intimately linked to mineral dehydration reactions in the subducting oceanic
mantle, crust, and sediments. The location of slab dehydration reactions depends strongly …

The deployment of USArray during the last decade has produced dense sampling of the
central part of the North American continent with broadband seismic data. Regional …

An important but poorly known part of the earthquake hazard at near‐coastal cities of
western North America from southern British Columbia to northern California is from great …

Type I spinel peridotite xenoliths from Simcoe Volcano, southern Washington (USA), are
from lithospheric mantle approximately 65 km inboard from the axis of the subduction …

We have inverted fundamental and higher‐mode Rayleigh waveforms from 685 vertical
component broadband seismograms with wave paths over North America to obtain an …

A teleseismic travel-time study reveals the presence of a fossil plume in the deep upper
mantle beneath Brazil, which has apparently remained geographically fixed with respect to …