The elasticity of lawsonite at high pressure and the origin of low velocity layers in subduction zones

2012 ◽  
Vol 349-350 ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Chantel ◽  
Mainak Mookherjee ◽  
Daniel J. Frost
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Low Velocity

Experimentally deformed lawsonite at high pressure and high temperature: Implication for low velocity layers in subduction zones

2019 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 106282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riko Iizuka-Oku ◽  
Vincent Soustelle ◽  
Nobuyoshi Miyajima ◽  
Nicolas P. Walte ◽  
Daniel J. Frost ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Low Velocity

scholarly journals Up the down escalator: the exhumation of (ultra)-high pressure terranes during on-going subduction

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 745-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Warren
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Subduction Zone ◽  
Continental Crust ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Crustal Material ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Ultra High Pressure ◽  
Tectonic Environment ◽  
Tectonic Style ◽  
Weak Material

Abstract. The exhumation of high and ultra-high pressure rocks is ubiquitous in Phanerozoic orogens created during continental collisions, and is common in many ocean-ocean and ocean-continent subduction zone environments. Three different tectonic environments have previously been reported, which exhume deeply buried material by different mechanisms and at different rates. However it is becoming increasingly clear that no single mechanism dominates in any particular tectonic environment, and the mechanism may change in time and space within the same subduction zone. In order for buoyant continental crust to subduct, it must remain attached to a stronger and denser substrate, but in order to exhume, it must detach (and therefore at least locally weaken) and be initially buoyant. Denser oceanic crust subducts more readily than more buoyant continental crust but exhumation must be assisted by entrainment within more buoyant and weak material such as serpentinite or driven by the exhumation of structurally lower continental crustal material. Weakening mechanisms responsible for the detachment of crust at depth include strain, hydration, melting, grain size reduction and the development of foliation. These may act locally or may act on the bulk of the subducted material. Metamorphic reactions, metastability and the composition of the subducted crust all affect buoyancy and overall strength. Subduction zones change in style both in time and space, and exhumation mechanisms change to reflect the tectonic style and overall force regime within the subduction zone. Exhumation events may be transient and occur only once in a particular subduction zone or orogen, or may be more continuous or occur multiple times.

Compressibility of water in magma and the prediction of density crossovers in mantle differentiation

2008 ◽  
Vol 366 (1883) ◽  
pp. 4239-4252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl B Agee
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Compressible Liquid ◽  
Silicate Melt ◽  
Liquid Density ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
Oxide Component ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Liquid Oxide ◽  
Planetary Differentiation ◽  
Pressure Regime

Hydrous silicate melts appear to have greater compressibility relative to anhydrous melts of the same composition at low pressures (<2 GPa); however, at higher pressures, this difference is greatly reduced and becomes very small at pressures above 5 GPa. This implies that the pressure effect on the partial molar volume of water in silicate melt is highly dependent on pressure regime. Thus, H 2 O can be thought of as the most compressible ‘liquid oxide’ component in silicate melt at low pressure, but at high pressure its compressibility resembles that of other liquid oxide components. A best-fit curve to the data on from various studies allows calculation of hydrous melt compression curves relevant to high-pressure planetary differentiation. From these compression curves, crystal–liquid density crossovers are predicted for the mantles of the Earth and Mars. For the Earth, trapped dense hydrous melts may reside atop the 410 km discontinuity, and, although not required to be hydrous, atop the core–mantle boundary (CMB), in accord with seismic observations of low-velocity zones in these regions. For Mars, a density crossover at the base of the upper mantle is predicted, which would produce a low-velocity zone at a depth of approximately 1200 km. If perovskite is stable at the base of the Martian mantle, then density crossovers or trapped dense hydrous melts are unlikely to reside there, and long-lived, melt-induced, low-velocity regions atop the CMB are not predicted.

scholarly journals Temperature-induced amorphization in CaCO3 at high pressure and implications for recycled CaCO3 in subduction zones

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingqiang Hou ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Renbiao Tao ◽  
Hong Liu ◽  
Yoshio Kono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Subduction Zones

Metamorphic evolution of Raspas complex (Ecuador) and its relation with a J-K belt of melanges in NW of the South American plate.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayda Arrieta-Prieto ◽  
Carlos Zuluaga-Castrillón ◽  
Oscar Castellanos-Alarcón ◽  
Carlos Ríos-Reyes
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Mineral Chemistry ◽  
White Mica ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
South American ◽  
The South ◽  
South American Plate ◽  
Subduction Channel ◽  
Southern Ecuador

&lt;p&gt;High-pressure complexes along the Earth's surface provide evidence of the processes involved in both the crystallization of rocks in the subduction channel and its exhumation. Such processes are key to understand the dynamics and evolution of subduction zones and to try to reconstruct P-T trajectories for these complexes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previous studies on the Raspas complex (southern Ecuador) agree to state that it is composed of metamorphic rocks, mainly blueschists and eclogites, containing the mineral assemblage: glaucophane + garnet + epidote + omphacite + white mica + rutile &amp;#177; quartz &amp;#177; apatite &amp;#177; pyrite &amp;#177; calcite; which stabilized in metamorphic conditions of high pressure and low temperature. Additionally, the Raspas Complex has been genetically related to accretion and subduction processes of seamounts, which occurred in South America during the Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous interval; and the exhumation of the complex was related to subduction channels. However, the evidence presented in the existing literature makes little emphasis on the reconstruction of thermobarometric models for the rocks of this complex.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By combining petrographic observations, whole-rock chemistry, and mineral chemistry in this work; it was possible to determine that pressure values of 10 &amp;#177; 3 Kbar and temperature values of 630 &amp;#177; 30 &amp;#176; C, (obtained by simulations with THERMOCALC&amp;#174;) correspond to an event of retrograde metamorphism, suffered by the complex during its exhumation. This theory is complemented by the specific textures (that suggest this retrograde process) observed during petrographic analysis, such as amphibole replacing pyroxene, garnet chloritization, plagioclase crystallization and rutile replacement by titanite.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results obtained, together with the thermobarometry data published for the Arqu&amp;#237;a complex in Colombia, allow us to establish a P-T trajectory, that may suggest a genetic relationship between these two complexes as a result of the tectonic processes associated with an active subduction margin that affected the NW margin of the South American plate at the end of the Jurassic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

Intraplate and petit-spot volcanism originating from hydrous mantle transition zone

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Yang ◽  
Manuele Faccenda
Keyword(s):  
Transition Zone ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Japan Trench ◽  
Low Velocity ◽  
Iranian Plateau ◽  
Mantle Transition Zone ◽  
Mantle Minerals ◽  
Ocean Ridges ◽  
Pacific Slab

&lt;p&gt;Most magmatism occurring on Earth is conventionally attributed to passive mantle upwelling at mid-ocean ridges, slab devolatilization at subduction zones, and mantle plumes. However, the widespread Cenozoic intraplate volcanism in northeast China and the peculiar petit-spot volcanoes offshore the Japan trench cannot be readily associated with any of these mechanisms. Furthermore, the seismic tomography images show remarkable low velocity zones (LVZs) sit above and below the mantle transition zone which are coincidently corresponding to the volcanism. Here we show that most if not all the intraplate/petit-spot volcanism and LVZs present around the Japanese subduction zone can be explained by the Cenozoic interaction of the subducting Pacific slab with a hydrous transition zone. Numerical modelling results indicate that 0.2-0.3 wt.% H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O dissolved in mantle minerals which are driven out from the transition zone in response to subduction and retreat of a stagnant plate is sufficient to reproduce the observations. This suggests that critical amounts of volatiles accumulated in the mantle transition zone due to past subduction episodes and/or delamination of volatile-rich lithosphere could generate abundant dynamics triggered by recent subduction event. This model is probably also applicable to the circum-Mediterranean and Turkish-Iranian Plateau regions characterized by intraplate/petit-spot volcanism and LVZs in the underlying mantle.&lt;/p&gt;

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