Subduction Zone Geodynamics

Abstract

Subduction Zone Geodynamics.- A Review of the Role of Subduction Dynamics for Regional and Global Plate Motions.- Subduction with Variations in Slab Buoyancy: Models and Application to the Banda and Apennine Systems.- Continental Collision and the STEP-wise Evolution of Convergent Plate Boundaries: From Structure to Dynamics.- Seismic Tomography and Anisotropy.- Seismic Anisotropy of Subduction Zone Minerals-Contribution of Hydrous Phases.- Local Earthquake Tomography in the Southern Tyrrhenian Region of Italy: Geophysical and Petrological Inferences on the Subducting Lithosphere.- Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes.- Effect of Subducting Seafloor Topography on the Rupture Characteristics of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes.- Great Earthquakes in Slow-Subduction, Low-Taper Margins.- Seismogenic Zone Characterization.- Convergent Margin Structure in High-Quality Geophysical Images and Current Kinematic and Dynamic Models.- Imaging Interseismic Locking at the Nankai Subduction Zone, Southwest Japan.- Continental and Ridge Subduction Processes.- Exhumation Processes in Oceanic and Continental Subduction Contexts: A Review.- Evolution of Subductions Indicated by Melanges in Taiwan.- Subduction of an Active Spreading Ridge Beneath Southern South America: A Review of the Cenozoic Geological Records from the Andean Foreland, Central Patagonia (46-47 S).- Configuration of the Colombian Caribbean Margin: Constraints from 2D Seismic Reflection data and Potential Fields Interpretation.