Subduction zones

RJ Stern - Reviews of geophysics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Subduction zones are where sediments, oceanic crust, and mantle lithosphere return to and
reequilibrate with Earth's mantle. Subduction zones are interior expressions of Earth's …

An updated digital model of plate boundaries

P Bird - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A global set of present plate boundaries on the Earth is presented in digital form. Most come
from sources in the literature. A few boundaries are newly interpreted from topography …

REVEL: A model for recent plate velocities from space geodesy

GF Sella, TH Dixon, A Mao - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new global model for Recent plate velocities, REVEL, describing the relative
velocities of 19 plates and continental blocks. The model is derived from publicly available …

Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial …

N Watanabe, K Arai, M Otsubo, M Toda… - Progress in Earth and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial fauna of Miyako Jima and adjacent
islands (the Miyako Islands) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, includes …

New insights on 3-D plates interaction near Taiwan from tomography and tectonic implications

S Lallemand, Y Font, H Bijwaard, H Kao - Tectonophysics, 2001 - Elsevier
Recent tomographic results are used to trace the South China Sea and Philippine Sea
subducting slabs, south and northeast of Taiwan along the Manila and Ryukyu trenches …

Structural characteristics of the northern Okinawa Trough and adjacent areas from regional seismic reflection data: geologic and tectonic implications

A Gungor, GH Lee, HJ Kim, HC Han, MH Kang, J Kim… - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
Analysis of regional multi-channel seismic data from the northern Okinawa Trough and
adjacent shelf provides some important constraints on the structural development of the …

Stress field along the Ryukyu Arc and the Okinawa Trough inferred from moment tensors of shallow earthquakes

A Kubo, E Fukuyama - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2003 - Elsevier
We investigated the stress field along the Ryukyu Arc and the Okinawa Trough using
regional (NIED MT) and global (Harvard CMT) moment tensor catalogs. Using the combined …

Active shortening of the Cascadia forearc and implications for seismic hazards of the Puget Lowland

SY Johnson, RJ Blakely, WJ Stephenson… - …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Margin‐parallel shortening of the Cascadia forearc is a consequence of oblique subduction
of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath North America. Strike‐slip, thrust, and oblique crustal …

Slab rollback suggested by latest Miocene to Pliocene forearc stress and migration of volcanic front in southern Kyushu, northern Ryukyu Arc

A Yamaji - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
The northern Ryukyu Arc has active backarc rift, neutral-stress forearc, and active
accretionary prism. The Okinawa Trough has been shaped by the episodic rifting in the …

Indentation of the Philippine Sea plate by the Eurasia plate in Taiwan: Details from recent marine seismological experiments

S Lallemand, T Theunissen, P Schnürle, CS Lee… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
We analyze in this study a new set of marine data including 3D local tomography, 1992–
2008 relocated earthquakes and two recent multichannel seismic lines to characterize the …