Subduction initiation as recorded in the izu-bonin-mariana forearc

MK Reagan, JA Pearce, JW Shervais… - Earth-science reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
IODP Expedition 352 drilled four sites in the Bonin outer forearc, providing a detailed record
of lava eruption and dike emplacement during a short-lived (< 2 Ma) seafloor spreading …

[HTML][HTML] Tectono-magmatic evolution of the Philippine Sea Plate: A review

Q Yan, X Shi, L Yuan, S Yan, Z Liu - Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The West Pacific Margin incorporates 75% of global marginal basins/back-arc
basins. These basins and their adjacent trenches and island arcs constitute a huge trench …

Molybdenum isotopes unmask slab dehydration and melting beneath the Mariana arc

HY Li, RP Zhao, J Li, Y Tamura, C Spencer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
How serpentinites in the forearc mantle and subducted lithosphere become involved in
enriching the subarc mantle source of arc magmas is controversial. Here we report …

Northwest Pacific-Izanagi plate tectonics since Cretaceous times from western Pacific mantle structure

J Wu, YA Lin, N Flament, JTJ Wu, Y Liu - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Northwest Pacific-Izanagi subduction histories along Eurasia are poorly
constrained due to extensive subduction, which partially consumed the western Pacific plate …

Magmatic response to subduction initiation, Part II: boninites and related rocks of the Izu‐Bonin Arc from IODP Expedition 352

JW Shervais, MK Reagan, M Godard… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 352 to the Izu‐Bonin forearc
cored over 800 m of basement comprising boninite and boninite‐series lavas. This is the …

[HTML][HTML] The petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas reconsidered: Ti-V and Nb-Th

JW Shervais - Geoscience Frontiers, 2022 - Elsevier
Tectonic discrimination diagrams are a key tool for understanding ancient volcanic rock
origins. In this contribution we compile over 15,000 whole rock compositions to re-evaluate …

Rapid subduction initiation and magmatism in the Western Pacific driven by internal vertical forces

B Maunder, J Prytulak, S Goes, M Reagan - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Plate tectonics requires the formation of plate boundaries. Particularly important is the
enigmatic initiation of subduction: the sliding of one plate below the other, and the primary …

The tempo of back-arc basin evolution: Insights from the early Paleozoic Proto-Tethyan North Qilian orogenic belt, northeastern Tibet

D Fu, B Huang, SA Wilde, TE Johnson, A Polat… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Back-arc basins are pivotal sites for the generation and consumption of oceanic lithosphere
in mature intra-oceanic convergent plate margins. However, the processes and mechanisms …

Slab dehydration and potassium-lithium recycling in the forearc indicated by potassium and lithium isotope compositions of exhumed metabasites

H Liu, T Yang, YY Xue, J Deng, Y Xiao, H Sun… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Slab dehydration at subduction zones has broad implications for arc magmatism, mantle
heterogeneity and elemental cycling. We present the petrography, mineral chemistry and …

Geochemical evolution of arc and slab following subduction initiation: a record from the Bonin Islands, Japan

O Ishizuka, RN Taylor, S Umino… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Volcanism following the initiation of subduction is vital to our understanding of this specific
magma-generation environment. This setting is represented by the first development of the …