Variability of subducting slab morphologies in the mantle transition zone: Insight from petrological-thermomechanical modeling

ZH Li, T Gerya, JAD Connolly - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Variable morphologies of subducting slabs are observed in tomographic images of the
mantle transition zone (MTZ), where slabs appear to stagnate in the MTZ or enter the lower …

Metamorphic response to collision in the Central Himalayan Orogen

B Goscombe, D Gray, DA Foster - Gondwana Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Closure of the Neotethys Ocean and high-angle continent-continent collision
between India and Asia after about 55 Ma resulted in low-angle subduction of the Indian …

The effect of Mn on mineral stability in metapelites revisited: new ax relations for manganese‐bearing minerals

RW White, R Powell, TE Johnson - Journal of Metamorphic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The a–x relations recently presented in White et al.(, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 32,
261–286) are extended to include MnO. This provides a set of internally consistent a–x …

[PDF][PDF] GEM-Selektor geochemical modeling package: TSolMod library and data interface for multicomponent phase models

T Wagner, DA Kulik, FF Hingerl… - The Canadian …, 2012 - researchgate.net
The development of highly accurate and computationally efficient modeling software based
on Gibbs energy minimization (GEM) makes it possible to thermodynamically simulate …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying geological uncertainty in metamorphic phase equilibria modelling; a Monte Carlo assessment and implications for tectonic interpretations

RM Palin, OM Weller, DJ Waters, B Dyck - Geoscience Frontiers, 2016 - Elsevier
Pseudosection modelling is rapidly becoming an essential part of a petrologist's toolkit and
often forms the basis of interpreting the tectonothermal evolution of a rock sample, outcrop …

Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming: a tool for geodynamic modeling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation

JAD Connolly - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
An algorithm for the construction of phase diagram sections is formulated that is well suited
for geodynamic problems in which it is necessary to assess the influence of phase …

Differentiation of the continental crust by relamination

BR Hacker, PB Kelemen, MD Behn - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Crust extracted from the mantle in arcs is refined into continental crust in subduction zones.
During sediment subduction, subduction erosion, arc subduction, and continent subduction …

XMapTools: A MATLAB©-based program for electron microprobe X-ray image processing and geothermobarometry

P Lanari, O Vidal, V De Andrade, B Dubacq… - Computers & …, 2014 - Elsevier
XMapTools is a MATLAB©-based graphical user interface program for electron microprobe
X-ray image processing, which can be used to estimate the pressure–temperature …

A metamorphic origin for Europa's ocean

M Melwani Daswani, SD Vance… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Europa likely contains an iron‐rich metal core. For it to have formed, temperatures within
Europa reached 1250 K. Going up to that temperature, accreted chondritic minerals—for …

H2O subduction beyond arcs

BR Hacker - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The amount of H2O subducted to postarc depths dictates such disparate factors as the
generation of arc and back‐arc magmas, the rheology of the mantle wedge and slab, and …