Slab dehydration in warm subduction zones at depths of episodic slip and tremor

CB Condit, VE Guevara, JR Delph… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Non-volcanic tremor (NVT) and episodic slow slip events (SSEs) have been observed below
the seismogenic zone of relatively warm subduction zones for the past 20 years …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid flow in the subduction channel: Tremolite veins and associated blackwalls in antigoritite (Villa Clara serpentinite mélange, Cuba)

L Butjosa, A Cambeses, JA Proenza… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
Exotic blocks of massive antigorite-serpentinite (antigoritite) document a deep-seated
subduction channel in the Villa Clara serpentinite-matrix mélange, central Cuba. The …

Metasomatism at a metapelite–ultramafic rock contact at the subduction interface: Insights into mass transfer and fluid flow at the mantle wedge corner

R Oyanagi, M Uno, A Okamoto - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2023 - Springer
Metasomatism of the subducting slab and mantle wedge influences the rheological and
chemical properties of rocks at the subduction zone interface. We investigated a serpentinite …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of normal stress on the frictional behavior of brucite: application to slow earthquakes at the subduction plate interface in the mantle wedge

H Okuda, I Katayama, H Sakuma, K Kawai - Solid Earth, 2021 - se.copernicus.org
We report the results of friction experiments on brucite under both dry and wet conditions
under various normal stresses (10–60 MPa). The final friction coefficients of brucite were …

Effect of normal stress on the friction of brucite: Application to slow earthquake in the mantle wedge

H Okuda, I Katayama, H Sakuma… - Solid Earth …, 2020 - se.copernicus.org
We report the results of friction experiments on brucite under both dry and water-saturated
(wet) conditions under various normal stresses (10–60 MPa). The steady-state friction …