Marine cold seeps and their manifestations: geological control, biogeochemical criteria and environmental conditions

E Suess - International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2014 - Springer
Characteristics of cold seeps at different geologic settings are the subject of this review
primarily based on results of the Research Consortium SFB 574. Criteria are drawn from …

Invited review paper: Fault creep caused by subduction of rough seafloor relief

K Wang, SL Bilek - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
Among the wide range of thermal, petrologic, hydrological, and structural factors that
potentially affect subduction earthquakes, the roughness of the subducting seafloor is …

Do subducting seamounts generate or stop large earthquakes?

K Wang, SL Bilek - Geology, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seamount subduction is a common process in subduction zone tectonics. Contradicting a
widely held expectation that subducting seamounts generate large earthquakes, seamounts …

Crustal redistribution, crust–mantle recycling and Phanerozoic evolution of the continental crust

PD Clift, P Vannucchi, JP Morgan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
We here attempt a global scale mass balance of the continental crust during the
Phanerozoic and especially the Cenozoic (65Ma). Continental crust is mostly recycled back …

Gravity anomalies, crustal structure, and seismicity at subduction zones: 1. Seafloor roughness and subducting relief

D Bassett, AB Watts - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
An ensemble averaging technique is used to remove the long‐wavelength topography and
gravity field from subduction zones.> 200 residual bathymetric and gravimetric anomalies …

Plume–subduction interaction in southern Central America: Mantle upwelling and slab melting

E Gazel, K Hoernle, MJ Carr, C Herzberg, I Saginor… - Lithos, 2011 - Elsevier
The volcanic front in southern Central America is well known for its Galapagos OIB-like
geochemical signature. A comprehensive set of geochemical, isotopic and geochronological …

Galapagos‐OIB signature in southern Central America: Mantle refertilization by arc–hot spot interaction

E Gazel, MJ Carr, K Hoernle… - Geochemistry …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Although most Central American magmas have a typical arc geochemical signature,
magmas in southern Central America (central Costa Rica and Panama) have isotopic and …

OPS mélange: A new term for mélanges of convergent margins of the world

K Wakita - International Geology Review, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) is essential to understanding accretionary wedges and
complexes along convergent plate margins. Mélanges within accretionary wedges and …

[HTML][HTML] Síntesis geocronológica del magmatismo, metamorfismo y metalogenia de Costa Rica, América Central

GE Alvarado, PB Gans - Revista Geológica de América Central, 2012 - scielo.sa.cr
Una recopilación completa de 651 determinaciones de edades radiométricas desde 1968
(415 dataciones 40Ar/39Ar, 211 K/Ar, 5 U/Th, 4 Rb/Sr, 2 U/Pb y de fisión termocronología …

Seamount subduction at the North-Ecuadorian convergent margin: Effects on structures, inter-seismic coupling and seismogenesis

B Marcaillou, JY Collot, A Ribodetti… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract At the North-Ecuadorian convergent margin (1° S–1.5° N), the subduction of the
rough Nazca oceanic plate leads to tectonic erosion of the upper plate and complex …