My Favorite Subduction Zone Model

  • Thorsten Becker: Why slab flattening?
  • Magali Billen: 1. Geoid and Topography (jpg) 2. Stress orientation (jpg)
  • James Conder: modeling of decompression melting (caption)
  • Huw Davies: Davies, Nature, 1999 (ppt)
  • Tim Grove: Both adiabatic and fluid induced melting at Cascadia show progressive depletion.
  • Peter Kelemen: High temperatures below the arc
  • Scott King: Minear and Toksoz
  • Jason McKenna: Kincaid and Sacks
  • Jason Phipps Morgan: Buoyancy may cause small scale circulation
  • Lars Ruepke: Modeling of fluid release
  • Tracy Rushmer: Make sure to think about tectonic setting
  • Marc Spiegelman: Where does the fluid go? Answers(?): 1: 2.
  • Bob Stern: Zhao et al. tomograph + petro-tectonic cartoon (pdf)
  • Jeroen van Hunen: Cartoon of important processes in the slab (pdf)
  • Doug Wiens: 1. Temperature and seismic velocity models for Tonga (pdf) 2. Computed raypaths and waveforms (pdf)