-
released fluids can
trigger seismicity and
induce melting within the
subducted plate and in the
overlying mantle wedge. This type of
melting selectively...
- (spinel and then
silicate perovskite and post-perovskite).
Slabs that are
subducted may be
negatively buoyant as a
result of
being cold from
their time on...
- Francisco, California. Over time, the
central part of the
Farallon plate was
subducted under the
southwestern part of the
North American plate. The
remains of...
- a
typical distance that
oceanic lithosphere must
travel before being subducted, the
thickness varies from
about 6 km (4 mi)
thick at mid-ocean ridges...
-
oceanic lithosphere is
formed at an
oceanic ridge,
while the
lithosphere is
subducted back into the
asthenosphere at
ocean trenches. Two processes, ridge-push...
-
south of the Near
Islands segment of the
Aleutian Islands. It has been
subducted under the
North American plate at the
Aleutian Trench,
being replaced...
-
lithosphere that is
being subducted. The
older the
oceanic lithosphere being subducted, the
steeper the
angle of
descent of the
subducted slab. As the Pacific's...
- In geology, a slab
window is a gap that
forms in a
subducted oceanic plate when a mid-ocean
ridge meets with a
subduction zone and
plate divergence at...
-
break down and
dissolve when
exposed to the atmosphere, or melt as it is
subducted under a continent. Due to the
driving forces of the rock cycle, plate...
- In this system, the
western edge of one plate, the
Pacific plate, is
subducted (i.e., thrust)
beneath the
smaller Mariana plate that lies to the west...
