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Book SynopsisSubduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments.Understanding the dynamics of the subducting slab is critical to a better understanding of the primary societally relevant natural hazards emerging from our planetary interior, the megathrust earthquakes and consequent tsunamis.
Subduction Dynamics is the result of a meeting that was held between August 19 and 22, 2012 on Jeju island, South Korea, where about fifty researchers from East Asia, North America and Europe met. Chapters treat diverse topics ranging from the response of the ionosphere to earthquake and tsunamis, to the origin of mid-continental volcanism thousands kilometers distant from the subduction zone, from the mysterious deep earthquakes triggered in the interior of the descending slabs, to the detailed pattern of accretionary wedges in convergent zones, from the induced mantle flow in the deep mantle, to the nature of the paradig
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction: The Impact of Subduction Dynamics on Mantle Flow, Continental Tectonics, and Seismic Hazard
Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Scott D. King, Sang-Mook Lee, and Seth Stein 1
1 Evidence from Caustic Waveform Modeling for Long Slab Thickening above the 660-km Discontinuity under Northeast Asia: Dynamic Implications
Juan Li, Nicola Tosi, Petra Maierová, and David A. Yuen 5
2 The Continental Collision Process Deduced from the Metamorphic Pattern in the Dabie Hongseong and Himalayan Collision Belts
Chang Whan Oh 19
3 A New Tectonic Model for the Genesis of Adakitic Arc Magmatism in Cretaceous East Asia
Changyeol Lee and In-Chang Ryu 69
4 Incoming Plate Variations along the Northern Manila Trench: Implications for Seafloor Morphology and Seismicity
Chuanxu Chen, Shiguo Wu, Jin Qian, Changlei Zhao, and Lingmin Cao 81
5 Source of the Cenozoic Volcanism in Central Asia
Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Sang-Mook Lee, and Siqi Zhang 97
6 Influence of Variable Thermal Expansivity and Conductivity on Deep Subduction
Nicola Tosi, Petra Maierová, and David A. Yuen 115
7 Slab]driven Mantle Weakening and Rapid Mantle Flow
M. A. Jadamec 135
8 Influence on Earthquake Distributions in Slabs from Bimaterial Shear Heating
Byung-Dal So and David A. Yuen 157
9 The Seismology of the Planet Mongo: The 2015 Ionospheric Seismology Review
Giovanni Occhipinti 169
10 Why We Need a New Paradigm of Earthquake Occurrence
Robert J. Geller, Francesco Mulargia, and Philip B. Stark 183
Index 193
