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Subduction-driven recycling of continental margin lithosphere

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  • A. Levander

    (Rice University)

  • M. J. Bezada

    (University of Oregon
    University of Minnesota)

  • F. Niu

    (Rice University
    State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, and Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, China, University of Petroleum)

  • E. D. Humphreys

    (University of Oregon)

  • I. Palomeras

    (Rice University)

  • S. M. Thurner

    (Rice University)

  • J. Masy

    (Rice University)

  • M. Schmitz

    (Fundación Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismológicas, Caracas 1073, Venezuela)

  • J. Gallart

    (Institut de Cièncias de la Terra Jaume Almera, CSIC, Barcelona 08028, Spain)

  • R. Carbonell

    (Institut de Cièncias de la Terra Jaume Almera, CSIC, Barcelona 08028, Spain)

  • M. S. Miller

    (University of Southern California)

Abstract

Seismic images of the subducted Atlantic slab under northeastern South America and the Alboran slab beneath the Gibraltar arc region show that subducting oceanic plates viscously entrain and remove the bottom of the continental thermal boundary layer from adjacent continental margins, driving surface tectonics and pre-conditioning the margins for further deformation.

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  • A. Levander & M. J. Bezada & F. Niu & E. D. Humphreys & I. Palomeras & S. M. Thurner & J. Masy & M. Schmitz & J. Gallart & R. Carbonell & M. S. Miller, 2014. "Subduction-driven recycling of continental margin lithosphere," Nature, Nature, vol. 515(7526), pages 253-256, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:515:y:2014:i:7526:d:10.1038_nature13878
    DOI: 10.1038/nature13878
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