Earth's deepest earthquakes occur as a population in subducting or previously subducted
lithosphere at depths ranging from about 325 to 690 km. This depth interval closely brackets …

A stagnant slab is a subducted slab of oceanic lithosphere subhorizontally deflected above,
across, or below the 660 km discontinuity. This phenomenon has now been widely …

The P wave velocity structure beneath the Western Pacific is found from the International
Seismological Center first arrival data. Special attention was paid to the deep structure …

The seismic tomography problem does not have a unique solution, and published
tomographic images have been equivocal with regard to the deep structure of subducting …

High pressure melting experiments on an anhydrous abyssal tholeiite collected from the Mid‐
Atlantic Ridge have been conducted over the pressure interval 3 to 20 GPa to explore the …

An increasing number of seismological studies indicate that slabs of subducted lithosphere
penetrate the Earth's lower mantle below some island arcs but are deflected, or, rather, laid …

A series of P-wave velocity perturbation maps of the mantle are shown, which are compared
with surface geology of the Earth. Major parts of fast anomalies are well—restricted to the …

A laboratory investigation of viscous slabs subducted from a migrating trench reveals a
range of possible behaviours. The slab dip in a uniform mantle is found to be steady or …

On 30 May 2015 an isolated deep earthquake (~ 670 km, Mw 7.9) occurred to the west of the
Bonin Islands. To clarify its causal mechanism and its relationship to the subducting Pacific …

This paper explores the evolutional process of back-arc basin (BAB) magma system at final
spreading stage of extinct BAB, Shikoku Basin (Philippine Sea) and assesses its tectonic …