Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries

Z Wang, SC Singh, C Prigent, EPM Gregory… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transform faults accommodate the lateral motions between lithospheric plates, producing
large earthquakes. Away from active transform boundaries, former oceanic transform faults …

Mineral carbonation of peridotite fueled by magmatic degassing and melt impregnation in an oceanic transform fault

F Klein, T Schroeder, CM John… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Most of the geologic CO2 entering Earth's atmosphere and oceans is emitted along plate
margins. While C-cycling at mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones has been studied for …

Amphibole stability, water storage in the mantle, and the nature of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

MP Juriček, H Keppler - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Amphibole could potentially be an important host of water in the upper mantle. Moreover, the
decomposition of amphibole has been invoked as a possible cause of the lithosphere …

Seismic evidence for uniform crustal accretion along slow-spreading ridges in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Z Wang, SC Singh - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The crustal accretion along mid-ocean ridges is known to be spreading-rate dependent.
Along fast-spreading ridges, two-dimensional sheet-like mantle upwelling creates relatively …

Shear velocity inversion guided by resistivity structure from the PI‐LAB Experiment for integrated estimates of partial melt in the mantle

N Harmon, S Wang, CA Rychert… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The lithosphere‐asthenosphere system is fundamental to our understanding of mantle
convection and plate tectonics. The different sensitivities of seismic and electromagnetic …

Imaging the seismic velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle in the northern East African Rift using Rayleigh wave tomography

EL Chambers, N Harmon, CA Rychert… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the dynamics and evolution of continental rifting is broadly important for our
understanding of plate tectonics. The northern East African Rift offers an excellent …

Geodetic signature of a weak lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary in postseismic deformation of large subduction earthquakes

T Sun, K Wang, J He - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
The rheology of the seismically imaged Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary (LAB) is an
important new question in plate tectonics. If the LAB is associated with ponding of partial …

Chemical heterogeneity, convection and asymmetry beneath mid-ocean ridges

AE Pusok, RF Katz, DA May, Y Li - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Geophysical observations at some mid-ocean ridges document an across-axis asymmetry in
indicators of magma production. Other observations are interpreted as showing non …

Modeling geomagnetic induction in submarine cables

S Chakraborty, DH Boteler, X Shi, BS Murphy… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Submarine cables have become a vital component of modern infrastructure, but past
submarine cable natural hazard studies have mostly focused on potential cable damage …

Wide-angle seismic reflections reveal a lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary zone in the subducting Pacific Plate, New Zealand

P Herath, TA Stern, MK Savage, D Bassett… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
New wide-angle seismic reflection data from offshore New Zealand show that the
lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) is more structured than previously thought …