Tesis: "Transcurrent and subduction tectonics"

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Alizadeh, Noudeh Shiva. "Evolution pétrologique des séries volcaniques du massif de Talysh (Iran du NW) à la transition Caucase-Caspienne et implications géodynamiques". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Chambéry, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024CHAMA053.

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Le magmatisme cénozoïque de la ceinture orogénique qui relie les zones tectoniques de l'Iran, du bloc arménien méridional (petit Caucase) et de la Turquie, reste un sujet de débat. Cette recherche se concentre sur l'épaisse succession géologique de roches volcaniques shoshonitiques calco-alcalines riches en K exposées dans le massif de Talysh, qui fait partie de la ceinture magmatique de l'Alborz, dans le nord-ouest de l'Iran. L'objectif de cette étude est d'étudier les roches volcaniques relativement peu étudiées du massif de Talysh afin de mieux contraindre le cadre géodynamique du magmatisme pendant la convergence régionale. Une étude complète incluant de nouvelles données de terrain, la chimie minérale, la géochimie des éléments majeurs et traces des roches totales, la composition isotopique (Sr, Nd, Pb, Hf), la géochronologie 40Ar-39Ar, et le zircon U-Pb. Cette montre une série magmatique de basaltes riches en olivine, basaltes à clinopyroxène-phyrique, basaltes à clinopyroxène-phyrique, basaltes à amphibole-phyrique, téphrites, trachy-andésites et roches pyroclastiques. Ils contiennent de multiples populations de cristaux : olivine, clinopyroxène, amphibole et phlogopite, avec des textures de rééquilibrage ainsi qu'une zonation oscillatoire et inverse complexe, des textures criblées et des textures de résorption, ce qui suggère que les magmas ont été stockés dans et différenciés dans des chambres magmatiques avec des réinjections successives avant l'éruption. En outre, les âges 40Ar-39Ar de la biotite et des amphiboles des basaltes et les âges U-Pb du zircon des roches pyroclastiques indiquent que l'activité volcanique s'est déroulée pendant ~ 10 Myr (49-38 Myr). L'enrichissement en LILE et l'appauvrissement en Nb, Ta et Ti sont des caractéristiques des laves de Talysh, qui présentent des caractéristiques géochimiques d'arc. Leurs compositions isotopiques varient : 87Sr/86Sr (i) de 0,7045 à 0,7066, ɛNd(i) de ~-2,2 à +1,7, et ɛHf(i) de -2,5 à +3,6. Les roches ont des compositions radiogéniques en plomb (206Pb/204Pb de 18,51 à 19,04, 207Pb/204Pb de 15,59 à 15,63, et 208Pb/204Pb de 38,67 à 39,15). Les éléments majeurs de la plupart des échantillons primitifs (MgO > 5 % en poids) sont comparables à ceux des fusions partielles à faible degré (4-9%) d'une lherzolite à grenat et spinelle avec des rapports grenat:spinelle de 40:60 à 20:80. Les résultats obtenus par géothermobarométrie clinopyroxène-liquide indiquent une variété de réservoirs magmatiques, allant de niveaux profonds (79-60 km) à des niveaux moins profonds (2 km). Les rapports isotopiques de Sr, Nd, Pb et Hf, ainsi que les profils similaires d'éléments traces incompatibles normalisés par la chondrite et par le manteau primitif, ainsi que les estimations thermobarométriques sur les cristaux d'olivine, de clinopyroxène et d'amphibole, suggèrent que la source mantellique est une source asthénosphérique enrichie et que de la croûte continentale a été mélangée au cours du processus de différenciation. Les données sont cohérentes avec la fusion partielle d'un manteau sous-continental à grenat modifié par subduction et les interactions avec un manteau à spinelle pendant l'ascension magmatique. La phase magmatique éocène pourrait avoir été déclenchée par une remontée de l'Asthénosphère liée au début de la subduction à pendage sud du bassin transcaucasien. L'ascension magmatique a probablement été facilitée par des failles décrochantes trans-lithosphériques mises en évidence par les données paléomagnétiques. Le passage d'une composante magmatique calco-alcaline à une composante magmatique plus alcaline avec le temps, du sud au nord du massif de Talysh, suggère un raidissement de la plaque en réponse à un retournement à l'Éocène supérieur. Après cette période, le volcanisme s'est arrêté dans le Talysh Sud et a considérablement diminué dans le massif du Talysh Nord, où il a évolué vers un magmatisme de type adakitique au cours du Miocène supérieur et du Quaternaire
The Cenozoic magmatism of the Central Tethyan orogenic belt, which links the tectonic zones of Iran, the South Armenian Block (lesser Caucasus), and Turkey, remains a topic of debate. This research focuses on the thick geological succession of high-K calc-alkaline shoshonitic volcanic rocks exposed in the Talysh Massif, part of the Alborz magmatic belt, northwestern Iran. The aim of this study is to investigate the relatively unstudied volcanic rocks of the Talysh Massif to better constrain the geodynamic setting of magmatism during regional convergence. A comprehensive study including new field data, mineral chemistry, bulk-rock major and trace element geochemistry, isotope composition (Sr, Nd, Pb, Hf), geochronology 40Ar-39Ar, and zircon U-Pb. We classify them as olivine, clinopyroxene-phyric basalts, clinopyroxene-phyric basalts, amphibole-phyric basalts, tephrites, trachy-andesites, and pyroclastic rocks. They contain multiple crystal populations, including phenocrysts, antecrysts, and xenocrysts: olivine, clinopyroxene, amphibole, and re-equilibrium phlogopite, along with complex oscillatory and reverse zoning, sieve textures, and resorption textures, which suggests that the magmas stalled and differentiated in the crust prior to eruption. Olivine-clinopyroxene-phyric samples in the southern part of the study area exhibit olivine phenocrysts chemically balanced with their host rock, with a slight zoning from high-Mg# cores (Mg# = 90) to rims (Mg# = 80). Furthermore, the amphiboles, biotite 40Ar-39Ar ages of basalts, and zircon U-Pb ages of pyroclastic rocks indicate that volcanic activity took place for ~ 10 Myr (between 49 and 38 Myr). Enrichment in LILE and depletion in Nb, Ta, and Ti are characteristics of the Talysh lavas, which exhibit arc geochemical features. They have isotopic compositions that vary, for 87Sr/86Sr (i) from 0.7045 to 0.7066, for ɛNd(i) from ~-2.2 to +1.7, and ɛHf(i) from -2.5 to +3.6. The rocks have radiogenic lead 206Pb/204Pb ratios from 18.51 to 19.04, 207Pb/204Pb from 15.59 to 15.63, and 208Pb/204Pb from 38.67 to 39.15. The major elements of most primitive samples (MgO > 5 wt%) are comparable to those of melts obtained from low-degree (4–9%) partial melting of a spinel-garnet lherzolite with garnet:spinel ratios of 40:60 to 20:80. The results obtained from clinopyroxene-liquid geothermobarometry indicate a variety of magma reservoirs, ranging from deep levels (79–60 km) to shallower levels (2 km). The isotopic ratios of Sr, Nd, Pb, and Hf, as well as the similar chondrite-normalized REE and primitive-mantle-normalized incompatible trace element patterns along thermobarometry estimates on olivine, clinopyroxene, and amphibole crystals, suggests that the mantle source is an enriched asthenospheric source, and that continental crust was mixed in during the differentiation process. The data are consistent with the partial melting of a garnet-bearing subduction-modified subcontinental mantle and interactions with a spinel-bearing mantle during magmatic ascent. This magmatic flare-up could have been triggered by an asthenosphere upwelling related to the onset of south-dipping subduction of the Transcaucasus basin. Asthenosphere flow and magmatic ascent were likely facilitated by trans-lithospheric strike-slip faults and block rotations highlighted by paleomagnetic data. A transition from calc-alkaline towards a more alkaline magmatic component with time, from south to north of the Talysh massif, suggests a slab steepening in response to roll-back in the Late Eocene. After this period, volcanism stopped in the South Talysh and significantly decreased in the North Talysh massif, where it evolved into an adakitic-type magmatism during the Late Miocene and Quaternary

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Shaw, Beth. "Active tectonics of the Hellenic subduction zone". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608877.

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Rowland, Andrea Jane. "Numerical modelling of subduction zone magmatism". Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266491.

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Daniel, Andrew John. "The geodynamics of spreading centre subduction in southern Chile". Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320503.

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Audet, Pascal. "Seismic and mechanical attributes of lithospheric deformation and subduction in western Canada". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2435.

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Convergent continental margins are regions of intense deformation caused by the interaction of oceanic plates with continents. The spatial extent of deformation is broadly commensurate with the specific time scale of the causative phenomenon. For example, subduction-related short-term deformation is limited to <200 km from the margin, whereas long-term plate convergence cause deformation over ∼1000 km landward. Deformation is thus manifested in multiple ways, with attributes depending on the scale of measurement. In this thesis we investigate the use of two geophysical approaches in the study of deformation: 1) The analysis of potential-field anomalies to derive estimates of the elastic thickness (Te) of the lithosphere, and 2) The structural study of past and present subduction systems using seismic observations and modelling. Both approaches involve the development of appropriate methodologies for data analysis and modelling, and their application to the western Canadian landmass. Our findings are summarized as follows: 1) We develop a wavelet-based technique to map variations in Te and its anisotropy; 2) We show how a step-wise transition in Te and its anisotropy from the Cordillera to the Craton is a major factor influencing lithospheric deformation; 3) We implement a waveform modelling tool that includes the effects of structural heterogeneity and anisotropy for teleseismic applications, and use it to model the signature of a fossil subduction zone in a Paleoproterozoic terrane; 4) We use teleseismic recordings to map slab edge morphology in northern Cascadia and show how slab window tectonism and slab stretching led to the creation of the oceanic Explorer plate; 5) We use seismic signals from the subducting oceanic crust to calculate elevated Poisson’s ratio and infer high pore-fluid pressures and a low-permeability plate boundary within the forearc region of northern Cascadia.

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Liodas, Nathaniel Thomas. "Gneiss dome development & transcurrent tectonics in the Archean: example of the Pukaskwa batholith and Hemlo shear zone, Superior Province, Canada". OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/753.

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Archean greenstone belts typically form narrow sheared basins separating bulbous tonalo-trondjhemo-granodioritic (TTG) batholiths. The role played by gravity in the development of such dome-and-keel structures is a key question in Archean tectonics. The Pukaskwa batholith - Hemlo shear zone (HSZ) is a representative example of the dome-and-keel structures that are common in Archean terrains. This region has received considerable attention because the HSZ hosts several major gold deposits that are currently being mined. Late dextral strike-slip kinematics of the HSZ are well recorded by abundant strain markers in greenstone rocks, whereas the quartzofeldspathic coarse-grained rocks of the Pukaskwa batholith bear no macroscopically visible fabric. The goal of this study is to understand the structural history of this greenstone belt-batholith system. The Pukaskwa batholith is a heterogeneous assemblage of TTG gneisses bounded by the Hemlo greenstone belt to the north. The density of the Pukaskwa batholith rocks (density = 2700 kg/m3) is on average less than that of the Hemlo greenstone rocks (density = 3000 kg/m3). Since Archean geotherms were considered higher than modern equivalents, the effective viscosity of the TTG rocks might have been sufficiently low to allow their diapiric ascent through denser greenstone rocks. Alternatively, the emplacement of the TTG batholith might have been driven primarily by transpressive tectonics. The anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) provides valuable information on the internal fabric of the Pukaskwa batholith. This study provides the kinematic information needed to support either the diapiric or the transpressive tectonic model. AMS recorded east-west trending prolate and plano-linear fabrics across the northern section along the contact, suggesting that transpressional forces from the Hemlo shear zone affected the emplacement of the Pukaskwa batholith. Away from the contact, fabrics are generally flattened, indicative of doming through diapiric processes. Also, in order to fully evaluate the diapiric hypothesis, it is necessary to obtain reliable data on rock densities across the Pukaskwa batholith. The density of about 360 representative specimens from the Pukaskwa batholith has been measured and will constitute a valuable database for future gravimetric investigations by mining companies. The significant degree of correlation between high-field magnetic susceptibility and density in the Pukaskwa batholith should be taken into account in geophysical exploration in Archean terrains, only as a proxy for iron content.

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Fujihara, Satoru. "Thermal state beneath the Japanese Islands and its implication to tectonics of subduction zone". 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/149561.

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Medema, Guy Frederick. "Juan de Fuca subducting plate geometry and intraslab seismicity /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6828.

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Schellart, Wouter Pieter. "Subduction rollback, arc formation and back-arc extension". Monash University, School of Geosciences, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9485.

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Seebeck, Hannu Christian. "Normal Faulting, Volcanism And Fluid Flow, Hikurangi Subduction Plate Boundary, New Zealand". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8884.

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This thesis investigates normal faulting and its influence on fluid flow over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales using tunnel engineering geological logs, outcrop, surface fault traces, earthquakes, gravity, and volcanic ages. These data have been used to investigate the impact of faults on fluid flow (chapter 2), the geometry and kinematics of the Taupo Rift (chapter 3), the hydration and dehydration of the subducting Pacific plate and its influence on the Taupo Volcanic Zone (chapter 4), the migration of arc volcanism across the North Island over the 16 Myr and the associated changes in slab geometry (chapter 5) and the Pacific-Australia relative plate motion vectors since 38 Ma and their implications for arc volcanism and deformation along the Hikurangi margin (chapter 6). The results for each of these five chapters are presented in the five paragraphs below. Tunnels excavated along the margins of the southern Taupo Rift at depths < 500 m provide data on the spatial relationships between faulting and ground water flow. The geometry and hydraulic properties of fault-zones for Mesozoic basement and Miocene strata vary by several orders of magnitude approximating power-law distributions with the dimensions of these zones dependent on many factors including displacement, hostrock type and fault geometries. Despite fault-zones accounting for a small proportion of the total sample length (≤ 15%), localised flow of ground water into the tunnels occurs almost exclusively (≥ 91%) within, and immediately adjacent to, these zones. The spatial distribution and rate of flow from fault-zones are highly variable with typically ≤ 50% of fault-zones in any given orientation flowing. The entire basement dataset shows that 81% of the flow-rate occurs from fault-zones ≥ 10 m wide, with a third of the total flow-rate originating from a single fault-zone (i.e. the golden fracture). The higher flow rates for the largest faults are interpreted to arise because these structures are the most connected to other faults and to the ground surface. The structural geometry and kinematics of rifting is constrained by earthquake focal mechanisms and by geological slip and fault mapping. Comparison of present day geometry and kinematics of normal faulting in the Taupo Rift (α=76-84°) with intra-arc rifting in the Taranaki Basin and southern Havre Trough show, that for at least the last 4 Myr, the slab and the associated changes in its geometry have exerted a first-order control on the location, geometry, and extension direction of intra-arc rifting in the North Island. Second-order features of rifting in the central North Island include a clockwise ~20° northwards change in the strike of normal faults and trend of the extension direction. In the southern rift normal faults are parallel to, and potentially reactivate, Mesozoic basement fabric (e.g., faults and bedding). By contrast, in the northern rift faults diverge from basement fabric by up to 55° where focal mechanisms indicate that extension is achieved by oblique to right-lateral strike-slip along basement fabric and dip-slip on rift faults. Hydration and dehydration of the subducting Pacific plate is elucidated by earthquake densities and focal mechanisms within the slab. The hydration of the subducting plate varies spatially and is an important determinant for the location of arc volcanism in the overriding plate. The location and high volcanic productivity of the TVZ can be linked to the subduction water cycle, where hydration and subsequent dehydration of the subducting oceanic lithosphere is primarily accomplished by normal-faulting earthquakes. The anomalously high heat flow and volcanic productivity of the TVZ is spatially associated with high rates of seismicity in the underlying slab mantle at depths of 130-210 km which can be tracked back to high rates of deeply penetrating shallow intraplate seismicity at the trench in proximity to oceanic fluids. Dehydration of the slab mantle correlates with the location and productivity of active North Island volcanic centres, indicating this volcanism is controlled by fluids fluxing from the subducting plate. The ages and locations of arc volcanoes provide constraints on the migration of volcanism across the North Island over the last 20 Myr. Arc-front volcanoes have migrated southeast by 150 km in the last 8 Ma (185 km since 16 Ma) sub-parallel to the present active arc. Migration of the arc is interpreted to mainly reflect slab steepening and rollback. The strike of the Pacific plate beneath the North Island, imaged by Benioff zone seismicity (50-200 km) and positive mantle velocity anomalies (200-600 km) is parallel to the northeast trend of arc-front volcanism. Arc parallelism since 16 Ma is consistent with the view that the subducting plate beneath the North Island has not rotated clockwise about vertical axes which is in contrast to overriding plate vertical-axis rotations of ≥ 30º. Acceleration of arc-front migration rates (~4 mm/yr to ~18 mm/yr), eruption of high Mg# andesites, increasing eruption frequency and size, and uplift of the over-riding plate indicate an increase in the hydration, temperature, and size of the mantle wedge beneath the central North Island from ~7 Ma. Seafloor spreading data in conjunction with GPlates have been used to generate relative plate motion vectors across the Hikurangi margin since 38 Ma. Tracking the southern and down-dip limits of the seismically imaged Pacific slab beneath the New Zealand indicates arc volcanism in Northland from ~23 Ma and the Taranaki Basin between ~20 and 11 Ma requires Pacific plate subduction from at (or beyond) the northern North Island continental margin from at least 38 Ma to the present. Pacific plate motion in a west dipping subduction model shows a minimum horizontal transport distance of 285 km preceding the initiation of arc volcanism along the Northland-arc normal to the motion vector, a distance more than sufficient for self-sustaining subduction to occur. Arc-normal convergence rates along the Hikurangi margin doubled from 11 to 23 mm/yr between 20 and 16 Ma, increasing again by approximately a third between 8 and 6 Ma. This latest increase in arc-normal rates coincided with changes in relative plate motions along the entire SW Pacific plate boundary and steepening/rollback of the Pacific plate.

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Mackie, David. "Subduction beneath the Queen Charlotte Islands? : the results of a seismic refraction survey". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24849.

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The Queen Charlotte transform fault zone, which lies immediately east of the Queen Charlotte Islands, marks the boundary between the oceanic Pacific and the continental North American plates. Relative plate motions suggest that oblique underthrusting of the Pacific plate beneath North America may be presently occurring along this transform fault. To investigate this plate boundary and the implications of oblique subduction on crustal structure beneath the region, an onshore-offshore seismic refraction survey was conducted in 1983. The survey was designed to sample the crust beneath the Queen Charlotte Islands and across Hecate Strait to the mainland of British Columbia. Six ocean bottom seismographs and 11 land based stations were deployed along a 200 km line extending from 20 km west of the Queen Charlotte Islands to the mainland. Thirteen 540 kg and twenty 60 kg explosive charges were detonated along a 110 km long east-west line in the ocean to the west of the receivers. The multiple shots recorded on multiple receivers, all along the same line, effectively reverses the profile over some of its length. The objective of this study is to provide a model of the deep crustal structure beneath the fault zone, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and Hecate Strait. An exemplary subset of the extensive data set was selected to meet this objective. Beneath the deep ocean the Moho dips at about 2° to the east. At the Queen Charlotte terrace, a 25 km wide zone immediately west of the active Queen Charlotte fault, the dip of the Moho increases to about 5°. The crust is about 12 km thick at the terrace and 18 km thick at the eastern edge of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and in excess of 30 km thick at the mainland. The terrace unit itself is divided into two units - an upper unit with low velocity (4.1 km/s) and high gradient (0.3 km/s/km) and a lower unit with a high velocity (6.5 km/s) and a low gradient (0.05 km/s/km). This model, while not definitive, supports the interpretation of oblique shallow underthrusting of the Pacific plate beneath the Queen Charlotte Islands. The upper terrace unit could represent a sedimentary accretionary wedge and the lower terrace unit - the subducting slab. A model in which compression across the Queen Charlotte transform fault zone is taken up by deformation of the Queen Charlotte Islands in the form of crustal shortening and thickening is not compatible with the thin crust beneath the islands and Hecate Strait.
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Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
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Dehler, Sonya Astrid. "Integrated geophysical modelling of the northern Cascadia subduction zone". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30798.

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The northern Cascadia subduction zone involves convergence of the Explorer Plate and northern part of the Juan de Fuca Plate with the North American Plate along a margin lying west of Vancouver Island, Canada. A wide accretionary complex which underlies the continental slope and shelf has been formed. Two allochthonous terranes, the Crescent Terrane of Eocene oceanic crustal volcanics and the Pacific Rim Terrane of Mesozoic melange sedimentary rocks and volcanics, lie against the Wrangellia Terrane backstop beneath the west coast of Vancouver Island and outcrop on the southern tip of the island. The intrusive Coast Plutonic Complex underlies the westernmost part of the British Columbia mainland east of Vancouver Island and marks the location of the historic and modern volcanic arcs. An integrated interpretation of geophysical and geological data has been conducted for the northern Cascadia subduction zone. Regionally extensive gravity and magnetic anomaly data have formed the basis of the interpretation, while surface geology, physical properties, and seismic reflection, refraction, heat flow, borehole, magnetotelluric, and seismicity data have provided constraints on structure and composition. Horizontal gradient and vertical derivative maps of the potential field data were calculated to provide additional control on the locations of major faults and lithologic boundaries. Iterative forward modelling of the gravity and magnetic anomaly data was conducted along three offshore multichannel seismic reflection lines and their onshore extensions. The two-and-a-half-dimensional (2.5-D) models extended from the ocean basin across the accretionary complex and Vancouver Island to the mainland along lines perpendicular to the major structural trends of the margin and revealed lateral changes in the location of several structural components along the length of the margin. The interpretations were extended laterally by moving the original models to adjacent parallel positions and perturbing them to satisfy the new anomaly profile data and other constraints. The models thus formed were moved to the next position and the process repeated until a total of eleven models was developed across the margin. A twelfth line across a gravity anomaly high on southern Vancouver Island was independently modelled to examine the source of this feature. An average density model for the southern half of the convergent margin was constructed by averaging the models and profiles for seven lines at 10 km spacings. This process removed anomalies due to small source bodies and concentrated on the larger features. Finally, a regional density structural model was developed by linearly interpolating between all eleven cross-margin lines to construct a block model which could then be 'sliced' open to examine the internal structure of the margin at any location. The final models allow the Pacific Rim and Crescent Terrane positions to be extended along the offshore margin from their mapped locations. The Pacific Rim Terrane appears to be continuous and close to the coastline along the length of Vancouver Island, while the Crescent Terrane either terminates halfway along the margin or is buried at a depth great enough to suppress its magnetic signature. The location of the Westcoast Fault, separating the Pacific Rim and Wrangellia Terranes, has been interpreted to lie west of Barkley Sound at a position 15 km west of its previously interpreted position. Beneath southern Vancouver Island and Juan de Fuca Strait, the Crescent Terrane appears to have been uplifted into an anticlinal structure, bringing high density lower crustal or upper mantle material close to the surface and thereby causing the observed gravity anomaly high. The western part of the Coast Plutonic Complex has been interpreted as a thin lower density layer extending from its surface contact with Wrangellia to a position 20 to 30 km further east where the unit rapidly thickens and represents the main bulk of the batholith. The complexity of the thermal regime and its effects on density in this region allows for other interpretations. Finally, a comparison of the models along the length of the margin reveals that the crust of Vancouver Island appears to thin toward the north above the shallower Explorer Plate and the complex low - high density banding used in the southern Vancouver Island models is replaced with a single high density unit on the northernmost line.
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Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
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Murdie, Ruth Elaine. "Seismicity and neotectonics associated with the subduction of an active ocean ridge-transform system in Southern Chile". Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385262.

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Mizukami, Tomoyuki. "Tectonics of the Higashi-akaishi peridotite body : Structural and petrological constraints on mantle evolution in subduction zones". 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/145459.

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Kyoto University (京都大学)
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新制・課程博士
博士(理学)
甲第11049号
理博第2827号
新制||理||1421(附属図書館)
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UT51-2004-J721
京都大学大学院理学研究科地球惑星科学専攻
(主査)教授小畑正明, 教授平島崇男, 教授嶋本利彦
学位規則第4条第1項該当

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Ning, Zuoli. "Roles of plate locking and block rotation in the tectonics of the Pacific Northwest /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6833.

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Arkle, Jeanette C. "Orogenesis and landscape evolution above the subduction-transform transition at the southeast Caribbean plate corner, Trinidad and Tobago". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1571061691451314.

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Bassett, Daniel Graham. "The relationship between structure and seismogenic behaviour in subduction zones". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd284a79-d94a-4732-8dec-cb38c78fca73.

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The largest earthquakes on Earth take place on the megathrusts of subduction zones, but the slip behavior of megathrusts is variable. This thesis considers why by conducting local, regional and global studies of the interrelationships between the structure and seismogenic behavior of subduction zones. New marine geophysical data collected from the collision zone between the Louisville Ridge seamount chain with the Tonga-Kermadec trench constrain overthrusting and subducting plate structure. Mo'unga seamount is identified beneath the outer-forearc, which calibrates the association of residual bathymetric anomalies and subducting relief, implies an E-W geometry for the subducted ridge and suggests the 200 km wide Louisville seismic gap is modulated by the sediment filled flexural moat. Spectral averaging is then applied along the Tonga-Kermadec margin and along strike variations in overthrusting plate structure are verified by wide-angle seismic transects. The remnant Tonga-Ridge occupies the inner fore-arc and residual free-air gravity anomalies constrain its latitudinal extent (north of 30.5°S), width (110±20 km) and strike (~005° south of 25°S). Plate tectonic reconstructions suggest the Lau Ridge is unmodified by subduction related erosion, <200 km of the Tonga Ridge has been eroded, and neither ridge ever occupied the southern Kermadec arc. Crustal thickness variations are thus inherited, reflecting the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Tonga-Kermadec-Hikurangi margin. Spectral averaging is finally applied to all subduction zones on Earth. Part one develops a global catalogue of subducting relief, which is compared with seismological and geodetic inferences of fault-slip behavior. Most seamounts are aseismic, relatively undeformed and observations are not consistent with mechanical models proposing full-decapitation. Aseismic ridges are also associated with megathrust complexity, but are of a larger wavelength and contrasting mode of isostatic compensation. Part two shows almost all intra-margin along-strike transitions in seismogenic behavior are related to pre-existing crustal structure. A paired forearc anomaly is interpreted consisting of a trench-parallel ridge landward of the deep-sea-terrace basin. The ridge crest correlates with the down-dip limit of coseismic slip and strong interplate coupling, the up- dip limit of tremor epicentres, and is interpreted as defining the boundary between the velocity-weakening and seismogenic portion of the subduction interface and the down-dip frictional transition zone. Paired anomalies may be attributed to unrecovered interseismic elastic strain, the preferential subduction erosion of the outer-forearc and/or underplating beneath the inner forearc.

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Mallard, Claire. "Analyse tectonique de la surface des modèles de convection mantellique". Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE1143/document.

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La théorie de la tectonique des plaques permet de décrire les mouvements de premier ordre qui opèrent à la surface de la Terre. S'il est acquis que la convection dans le manteau terrestre en est le moteur, les liens entre les phénomènes profonds et les caractéristiques tectoniques de la surface restent largement méconnus. Jusqu'à très récemment, les modèles de convection du manteau terrestre ne produisaient pas de tectonique de surface pouvant être comparée à celle de la Terre. Récemment, des modèles globaux de convection qui reproduisent une tectonique de surface comparable à la Terre au premier ordre ont été mis au point. Ces modèles produisent des courants mantelliques ascendants et descendants de grande échelle et des déformations localisées en surface dans les zones de divergence et les zones de convergence. Ils génèrent une expansion des fonds océaniques de manière auto-cohérente proche de celle reconstruite pour les 200 derniers millions d'années de l'histoire de la Terre et une dérive de continents similaire à celle observée grâce au paléomagnétisme. Cette thèse s'inscrit parmi les premières tentatives d'utilisation de modèles de convection sphériques auto-organisés à des fins de compréhension de la tectonique de surface. La tectonique produite dans ce type de modèles de convection sera caractérisée finement à travers l'étude des limites de plaques, de leur agencement et de leurs vitesses de déplacement. L'objectif est de pouvoir comparer qualitativement et quantitativement les résultats des calculs de convection avec les reconstructions des mouvements de la surface terrestre grâce à la tectonique des plaques et aux observations de terrain. Dans cette optique, les limites tectoniques ont été définies à la main dans un premier temps afin de comprendre la physique qui gouverne l'agencement caractéristique des plaques tectoniques terrestres. En effet, celle-ci est composée de sept grandes plaques et plusieurs petites dont la répartition statistique indique deux processus de mise en place distincts. Nous avons déterminé les processus responsables de la mise en place de l'agencement caractéristique des plaques tectoniques en surface en faisant varier la résistance de la lithosphère. Plus la lithosphère est résistante, plus la longueur totale et la courbure des zones de subduction diminue à la surface des modèles. Cela s'accompagne également d'une diminution du nombre de petites plaques. En étudiant la fragmentation au niveau des jonctions triples, nous avons montré que les petites plaques étaient associées aux géométries courbées des fosses océaniques. En revanche, les grandes plaques sont contrôlées par les grandes longueurs d'onde de la convection mantellique. Ces deux processus impliquent deux temps de réorganisation, c'est-à-dire l'apparition et la disparition d'une plaque plongeante dans le manteau terrestre (environ 100 millions d'années) pour les grandes plaques, alors que l'échelle de temps de réorganisation des petites plaques dépend des mouvements des fosses et est ainsi plus rapide d'un ordre de grandeur. Afin d'effectuer des analyses quantitatives rapides, des méthodes d'analyse automatique de la surface et de l'intérieur des modèles ont été développées. La première technique concerne la détection automatique des plaques tectoniques à la surface des modèles (ADOPT). ADOPT est un outil de détection basé sur une technique de segmentation d'images utilisée pour détecter des bassins versants. Les champs à la surface des modèles sont transformés en reliefs, soit directement, soit après un processus de filtrage. Cette détection permet d'obtenir des polygones de plaques comparable aux analyses réalisées à la main. Une autre technique de détection a été mise au point pour étudier les panaches mantelliques [etc...]
Plate tectonics theory describes first order surface motions at the surface of the Earth. Although it is agreed upon that convection in the mantle drives the plates, the relationships between deep dynamics and surface tectonics are still largely unknown. Until recently, mantle convection models could not produce surface tectonics that could be compared to that of the Earth. New global models are able to form large-scale ascending and descending mantle currents, as well as narrow regions of localized deformation at the surface where convergence and divergence occur. These models selfconsistently generate an expansion of the oceanic floor similar to that of the last 200 million years on Earth, and continental drift similar to what can be reconstructed with palaeomagnetism. This Ph.D. thesis constitutes one of the first attempts to use self-organised, spherical convection models in order to better understand surface tectonics. Here, the tectonics produced by the models is finely charaterized through the study of plate boundaries, their organisation and their velocities. The goal is to be able to compare qualitatively and quantitatively the results of convection computations with surface motions, as reconstructed using the rules of plate tectonics and field observations. Plate boundaries emerging from the models were first traced and analyzed by hand so as to understand the physics that govern the typical organization of the tectonics plates on Earth. It is characterised by seven large plates and several smaller ones, following a statistical distribution that suggests that two distinct physical processes control the plates’ layout. We have determined the processes responsible for this distribution while varying the strength of the lithosphere (the yield stress). In our models, the stronger the lithosphere, the greater the total subduction length and their curvature, and the fewer the small plates. By studying surface fragmentation with triple junctions, we showed that the formation of small plates is associated with oceanic trench curvature. Large plates, however, are controlled by the long wavelengths of the convection cells. These two processes involve two different reorganisation times, controlled either by the accretion and the subduction of the large plates (about 100 Myrs), or by trench motions for the smaller plates. In order to improve the efficiency of our analysis, we have developed automated methods to study the surface and the interior of the models. The first technique is about detecting the tectonic plates automatically at the surface of the models. It is called ADOPT. It is a tool based on image segmentation technique to detect the watersheds. The surface fields of the convection models are converted into a relief field, either directly or using a distance method. This automatic detection allows to obtain plates polygons similar to the hand analysis. Another technique of detection has been developed to study mantle plumes. These analyzes were used to determine the driving forces behind the plates layout, to quantify the timing of reorganizations and to evaluate the implication of the models rheology on the surface distribution. These new analytical tools and the constant evolution of the quality of mantle convection models allow us to improve our understanding of the link between mantle dynamics and surface tectonics, but also to target necessary improvements in the convection models used

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Wagner, Lara Suzanne. "Investigations of Upper Mantle Structure using Broadband Seismology". Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1204%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Heuret, Arnauld. "Dynamique des zones de subduction : étude statistique globale et approche analogique". Phd thesis, Université Montpellier II - Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00108728.

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Comparer les zones de subductions les unes aux autres permet d'éclairer les raisons de leur diversité et de remonter aux forces qui gouvernent leur fonctionnement. Pour permettre cette comparaison statistique, une base de données globale originale, SubductionZones, qui décrit l'ensemble des zones de subduction océaniques du globe a été construite à partir de bases de données globales préexistantes. Les observations qui découlent de l'analyse statistique globale des zones de subduction, souvent inédites et infirmant parfois les résultats d'études antérieures, impliquent une réévaluation des modèles de subduction en vigueur. Des trois « acteurs » mis en jeu dans le processus de subduction (i.e., la plaque subduite, la plaque supérieure et le manteau), la plupart des observations mettent en avant l'influence de la plaque supérieure et de la direction de son mouvement sur la dynamique de la subduction. Les caractéristiques de la plaque subduite et de son panneau plongeant, en revanche, si elles semblent contrôler le mouvement des plaques, ont vraisemblablement une influence limitée sur le mouvement des fosses, le régime tectonique de la plaque supérieure et le pendage du slab. L'influence du manteau et des flux qui l'animent a par ailleurs été mise en évidence dans quelques cas, notamment à proximité des bordures de slabs.
Les modèles physiques (analytiques, numériques ou analogiques), pour leur part, complètent la vision instantanée du processus de subduction que donne l'approche statistique en offrant un cadre théorique et dynamique à l'interprétation des observations. L'approche analogique nous a ainsi permis de tester les modalités de l'influence du mouvement de la plaque supérieure dans le contrôle du mouvement de la fosse, de la géométrie du panneau plongeant et de la déformation de la plaque supérieure.

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Driehaus, Lena. "Modélisation analogique de la déformation des zones en compression et subduction". Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00995398.

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Cette thèse présente les résultats et conclusions issues d'une série de modèles analogiques de systèmes de compressif à différentes échelles : Les expériences réalisées à l'échelle crustale montrent que la symétrie de structures compressives, de type plis et chevauchements avec 3 niveaux de décollement, est fortement dépendante de la vitesse de sédimentation. Les résultats ont été appliqués au Subandin Bolivien. Les expériences réalisées à l'échelle lithosphérique simulent la subduction et l'extension arrière-arc dans un système subissant une compression parallèle à la marge continent-océan (COB). Ces modèles démontrent que la différence de densité entre les plaques continentales et océaniques est le paramètre clé pour expliquer l'extension arrière-arc: plus petite est la différence de densité, plus faible est l'extension produite. Les résultats ont été appliqués al 'Anatolie. Enﬁn, ces modèles ont été utilisés pour tester la reproductibilité et les limites de la modélisation analogique.

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Cameron, Milo Louis. "Rifting and subduction in the papuan peninsula, papua new guinea| The significance of the trobriand tough, the nubara strike-slip fault, and the woodlark rift to the present configuration of papua new guinea". Thesis, The University of Alabama, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3620068.

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The calculated extension (~111 km) across the Woodlark rift is incompatible with the > 130 km needed to exhume the Metamorphic Core Complexes on shallow angle faults (< 30°) using N-S extension in the Woodlark Basin. High resolution bathymetry, seismicity, and seismic reflection data indicate that the Nubara Fault continues west of the Trobriand Trough, intersects the Woodlark spreading center, and forms the northern boundary of the Woodlark plate and the southern boundary of the Trobriand plate. The newly defined Trobriand plate, to the north of this boundary, has moved SW-NE along the right lateral Nubara Fault, creating SW-NE extension in the region bounded by the MCC's of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Moresby Seamount. Gravity and bathymetry data extracted along four transect lines were used to model the gravity and flexure across the Nubara Fault boundary. Differences exist in the elastic thickness between the northern and southern parts of the lines at the Metamorphic Core Complexes of Goodenough Island (Te_south = 5.7 x 103 m; Te_north = 6.1 x 103 m) and Fergusson Island (Te_south = 1.2 x 103 m; Te_north = 5.5 x 103 m). Differences in the elastic strength of the lithosphere also exist at Moresby Seamount (Te_south = 4.2 x 103 m; Te_north = 4.7 x 103 m) and Egum Atoll (Te_south =7.5 x 103 m; Te_north = 1.3 x 104 m). The differences between the northern and southern parts of each transect line imply an east-west boundary that is interpreted to be the Nubara Fault. The opening of the Woodlark Basin resulted in the rotation of the Papuan Peninsula and the Woodlark Rise, strike slip motion between the Solomon Sea and the Woodlark Basin at the Nubara Fault, and the formation of the PAC-SOL-WLK; SOL-WLK-TRB triple junctions. The intersection of the Woodlark Spreading Center with the Nubara Fault added the AUS-WLK-TRB triple junction and established the Nubara Fault as the northern boundary of the Woodlark plate.

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Nugroho, Hendro. "GPS Velocity Field In The Transition From Subduction To Collision Of The Eastern Sunda And Banda Arcs, Indonesia". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd885.pdf.

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Salazar, Reinoso Pablo [Verfasser]. "The upper crustal microseismicity image from the North Chilean subduction zone : implications for tectonics and fluid migration / Pablo Salazar Reinoso". Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1025511484/34.

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Drew, Jeffrey John. "A re-evaluation of the seismic structure across the active subduction zone of Western Canada". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26248.

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The 1980 Vancouver Island Seismic Project (VISP) was conducted to investigate lithospheric structure associated with the underthrusting oceanic Juan de Fuca plate and the overriding continental America plate. The principal components of the survey were: (l) an onshore-offshore refraction line, which was approximately perpendicular to the continental margin (line 1), and (2) a refraction line which ran along the length of Vancouver Island approximately parallel with the continental margin (line IV). Lines I and IV were originally interpreted by Spence el a.1. (1985) and McMechan and Spence (1983), respectively. However since the original interpretations of these lines, deep multichannel seismic reflection data have been obtained on southern Vancouver Island as part of the 1984 LITHOPROBE project and off the west coast of the island during a marine survey in 1985. This study was undertaken to resolve differences between the subsurface structures proposed in the original interpretations of lines I and IV and those suggested by the more recently acquired deep reflection data. The vertical two-way traveltimes to prominent reflectors, observed in the onshore-offshore deep reflection data, were used as a constraint in constructing velocity models which are consistent with both the reflection and refraction data. The traveltimes and amplitudes observed in the VISP refraction data were modeled using a two-dimensional raytracing and asymptotic ray theory synthetic seismogram routine. The principal difference between the model originally interpreted for line I and the revised model involves the introduction of a twice repeated sequence of a low velocity zone (≈ 6.4 km/s) above a thicker high velocity zone (≈ 7.1 km/s) for the underplated region directly above the subducting Juan de Fuca plate in place of the single high velocity block underlain by a thick low velocity zone. The revised model for line IV is significantly different from the originally interpreted model. The two low-high velocity zones of line 1 are continued along the length of the island at depths between 10 and 35 km. Below this, the structure of the subducted plate is included to maintain consistency with the revised model developed for line 1. Additional features of the revised onshore-offshore model corresponding to line 1 include an oceanic lithosphere that dips approximately 3° beneath the continental slope, then 14° to 16° beneath the continental shelf and Vancouver Island, and an average velocity for the upper oceanic mantle of 8.22 km/s. Two separate two-dimensional models were needed to explain the data collected along line IV as a result of considerable azimuthal coverage due to a 30° change in profile direction. The revised models developed for line IV are consistent with the revised model developed for line 1. The velocity in the upper 10 km ranges from 5.5 km/s to approximately 6.7 km/s. Below 10 km the velocity structure is consistent with that interpreted for line 1 and shows some variations along strike of the subduction zone. Several possible interpretations can be made for the origin of the sequence of layers directly above the subducting plate beneath Vancouver Island. The two favored interpretations are: (1) a. three stage tectonic process consisting of: stage 1 — offscraping of sediment from the top of the subducting plate forms the uppermost low velocity layer in the sequence; stage 2 — an imbricated package of mafic rocks derived by continuous accretion from the top of the subducting oceanic crust forms the first high velocity layer; and stage 3 — stages 1 and 2 repeat themselves with stage 2 currently occurring; or (2) remnant, pieces of oceanic lithosphere left stranded above the current subducting plate during two previous episodes of subduction in which the subduction thrust jumped further westward isolating the remnant. The revised model along line IV indicates that this process of subduction underplating could have been a pervasive feature of this convergent margin.
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Herman, Scott William. "A paleomagnetic investigation of vertical-axis rotations in coastal Sonora, Mexico| Evidence for distributed transtensional deformation during the Proto-Gulf shift from a subduction-dominated to transform-dominated plate boundary in the Gulf of California". Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1536547.

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The history of late Miocene (Proto-Gulf) deformation on the Sonoran margin of the Gulf of California is key to understanding how Baja California was captured by the Pacific plate and how strain was partitioned during the Proto-Gulf period (12.5-6 Ma). The Sierra el Aguaje and Sierra Tinajas del Carmen are located in southwestern coastal Sonora, Mexico, and represent the eastern rifted margin of the central Gulf of California. The ranges are composed of volcanic units and their corresponding volcaniclastic units which are the result of persistent magmatic activity between 20 and 8.8 Ma, including three packages of basalt and andesite that make excellent paleomagnetic recorders. Based on cross cutting relations and geochronologic data for pre-, syn-, and post-tectonic volcanic units, most of the faulting and tilting in the Sierra El Aguaje is bracketed between 11.9 and 9.0 Ma, thus falling entirely within Proto-Gulf time.

A paleomagnetic investigation into possible vertical axis rotations in the Sierra el Aguaje has uncovered evidence of clockwise rotations between ~13º and ~105º with possible translations. These results are consistent with existing field relations, which suggest the presence of large (>45°) vertical axis rotations in this region. This evidence includes: a) abrupt changes in the strike of tilted strata in different parts of the range, including large domains characterized by E-W strikes b) ubiquitous NE-SW striking faults with left lateral-normal oblique slip, that terminate against major NW-trending right lateral faults, and c) obliquity between the general strike of tilted strata and the strike of faults. These rotations occurred after 12 Ma and largely prior to 9 Ma, thus falling into the Proto-Gulf period. Such large-scale rotations lend credence to the theory that the area inboard of Baja California was experiencing transtension during the Proto-Gulf period, rather than the pure extension that would be the result of strain partitioning between Sonora and the Tosco-Abreojos fault offshore Baja California.

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Hedeen, Tyler. "Provenance response to flat-slab subduction as recorded in detrital zircon signatures from the southern Alaskan forearc basin system". Thesis, University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3094.

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Strata in the Cook Inlet forearc basin in south-central Alaska record the effects of tectonic events related to normal subduction and two flat-slab subduction events. Through detrital zircon geochronology we track provenance changes of strata deposited in a forearc basin in conjunction with these different subduction processes. Our data from strata deposited concurrent with normal subduction help to confirm previous provenance models of forearc basins that suggest provenance is sourced primarily from a proximal, coeval arc. However, compared to these models, our data from strata deposited coincident to flat-slab events show markedly different provenance signatures dependent upon: (1) geographic position relative to the flat-slab event; (2) pre-established, or lack thereof, topography; and (3) type of flat-slab event. Detrital zircon signatures of strata deposited in the Cook Inlet after flat-slab subduction of a mid-ocean ridge diversify to include older detritus found in the distal inboard region. This distal signature is then incrementally cut-off in younger strata due to deformation of the upper-plate from progressive insertion of a shallowly subducted oceanic plateau. Detrital zircon signatures for strata associated with each flat-slab event are largely older than depositional age due to the lack of coeval arc activity. Our data may help to improve the ability to recognize other flat-slab events through detrital zircon geochronology. In particular, changes in detrital zircon signatures found in strata deposited during flat-slab subduction of an oceanic plateau correlate well with the exhumation of rocks associated with the propagation of deformation in the over-riding plate due to plate coupling.

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Ng, Max Kin-Fat. "Assessment of tsunami hazards on the British Columbia coast due to a local megathrust subduction earthquake". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29633.

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Strong evidence suggests that the Cascadia subduction zone, off the west coast of Canada and the United States, is strongly seismically-coupled and that a possible megathrust earthquake might occur in that area in the near future. A study of tsunami hazards along the Canadian west coast associated with such a hypothetical earthquake is presented in this report. Numerical simulations of tsunami generation and propagation have been carried out using three models based on shallow water wave theory. Three cases of ground motion representing the ruptures of different crustal segments in the area have been examined. Computed results provide information on tsunami arrival times and a general view of the wave height distribution. The outer coast of Vancouver Island was found to be the most strongly affected area. At the head of Alberni Inlet, wave amplitudes reached up to three times the source magnitude. Inside the Strait of Georgia, the wave heights are significant enough to receive closer attention, especially in low-lying areas.
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Luo, Yan. "Spatial and temporal variations of earthquake frequency-magnitude distribution at the subduction zone near the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica". Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45963.

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The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica is unusually close to the Middle America Trench (MAT), such that interface locking along the megathrust is observable under land. Here, rapid convergence between the downgoing Cocos and the over-riding Caribbean plates at ~85mm/yr allows for observable high strain rates, frequent large earthquakes and ongoing micro-seismicity. By taking advantage of this ideal location, a network of 20 on-land broadband seismometers was established in cooperation between UC Santa Cruz, Georgia Tech, and OVSICORI, with most stations operating since 2008. To evaluate what seismicity tells us about the ongoing state of coupling along the interface, we must consistently evaluate the location and magnitude of ongoing micro- seismicity. Because of large levels of anthropogenic, biologic, and coastal noise, automatic detection of earthquakes remains problematic in this region. Thus, we resorted to detailed manual investigation of earthquake phases. So far, we have detected nearly 7,000 earthquakes below or near Nicoya between February and August 2009. From these events we evaluate the fine-scale frequency-magnitude distribution (FMD) along the subduction megathrust. The results from this b-value mapping‟ are compared with an earlier study of the seismicity 9 years prior. In addition, we evaluate them relative to the latest geodetically derived locking. Preliminary comparisons of spatial and temporal variations of the b-values will be reported here. Because ongoing manual detection of earthquakes is extremely laborious and some events might be easily neglected, we are implementing a match-filter detection algorithm to search for new events from the continuous seismic data. This new approach has been previously successful in identifying aftershocks of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. To do so, we use the waveforms of 858 analyst-detected events as templates to search for similarly repeating events during the same periods that have been manually detected. Preliminary results on the effectiveness of this technique are reported. The overall goal of this research is to evaluate the evolution of stress along the megathrust that may indicate the location and magnitude of potentially large future earthquakes. To do so, I make the comparison between the FMD and the interface locking. Only positive correlations are observed in the Nicoya region. The result is different from the one derived from the seismic data set that was recorded 9 years before our data. Therefore, to substantiate the causes for the different relationships between the b-value and the coupling degree, we need additional data with more reliable magnitudes.

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Ambrose, Tyler. "Structure, metamorphism, and tectonics of the northern Oman-UAE ophiolite and underlying metamorphic sole". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e9520624-0f91-4c9d-a9b9-e9e2fc5d5517.

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Ophiolites - thrust sheets of oceanic lithosphere that have been emplaced onto the continental margin - provide the opportunity to explore the structure and genesis of oceanic crust. As many ophiolites formed above subduction zones, they also allow for the investigation of mantle wedge and subduction interface processes. This the- sis examines the Oman-United Arab Emirates (UAE) ophiolite, which is the largest and most intensely studied ophiolite on Earth. Three distinct problems are addressed. (1) Recent research has proposed that the architecture and tectonic evolution of the ophiolite in the UAE differs from in Oman. In Chapter 2, I test this hypothesis by integrating new geological mapping and field observations with previously published maps of the ophiolite in the UAE. My results indicate that the ophiolite is gently folded, but otherwise largely intact. I demonstrate that the architecture of the ophi- olite in the UAE is not significantly different from in Oman. Thus, there is no basis for a different tectonic evolution as recently proposed. (2) Observations from exper- iments and small-scale natural shear zones indicate that volumetrically-minor phases can control strain localization. In Chapter 3, I test the hypothesis that minor phases control strain-localisation at plate boundaries. To do so, I analyzed peridotites from the base of the ophiolite, a palaeosubduction interface. My results demonstrate that minor phases limited olivine grain growth, which led to rheological weakening. (3) The mechanisms by which metamorphic soles detached from the downgoing slab and accreted to the hanging-wall mantle is unclear. In Chapter 4, I examine a transect across the metamorphic sole in the UAE. My results reveal that granulite formation was more extensive than is typically considered. I propose that granulite formation resulted in rheological strengthening, which caused the subduction interface to migrate into the downgoing slab and accrete the metamorphic sole.

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Khazaradze, Giorgi. "Tectonic deformation in western Washington State from global positioning system measurements /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6841.

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Arnould, Maëlis. "Some surface expressions of mantle convective instabilities". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/19901.

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The multiple interactions between Earth’s mantle and lithosphere, which is the upper boundary layer of mantle convection, generate lateral (plate tectonics) and vertical (dynamic topography) motions of Earth's surface. Understanding the influence of the dynamics of mantle convective instabilities on the surface is fundamental to improve our interpretations of a large range of surface observations, such as the formation of sedimentary basins, continental motions, the location of hotspots, the presence of gravity anomalies or sea-level variations. This thesis aims at using numerical models of whole-mantle convection self-generating plate-like tectonics to study the impacts of the development and the dynamics of mantle convective instabilities (such as slabs or mantle plumes) on the continuous reshaping of the surface. First, I focus on the effect of the coupling between mantle convective motions and plate tectonics on the development of dynamic topography at different spatio-temporal scales. The results suggest that Earth's surface can deform over large spatio-temporal scales (> 104 km and several hundreds of millions of years) induced by whole-mantle convection to small-scales (< 500 km and five million years) arising from small-scale upper-mantle convection. I show that subduction initiation and slab break-off events control the existence of intermediate scales of dynamic topography (between 500 and 104 km). A second aim of this thesis is to understand the dynamics of mantle plumes and their interactions with surface. I first characterize in detail the behavior of mantle plumes arising in models of whole-mantle convection self-generating plate-like tectonics, in light of surface observations. Then, I quantify the lateral motions of mantle plumes and unravel the sources of their drift. Finally, I use observations of the mantle thermal signature of plume/ridge interactions to reconstruct the relative motions between the Azores mantle plume and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Carry, Nicolas. "De la subduction continentale à l'exhumation dans les Alpes Penniques. Modélisations thermo-mécanique et paléogéographique". Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00166220.

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Les Alpes sont classiquement décrites comme étant une chaîne de collision type. Cependant les données métamorphiques et géochronologiques montrent que l'essentiel de l'histoire des Alpes s'est déroulée en contexte de subduction. La subduction continentale est responsable de la formation de unités cristallines internes en raison du réchauffement au sommet de la lithosphère subduite, comme le montre les modèles thermique 1D et thermomécanique 2D élaborés dans cette étude. Ces modèles permettent de quantifier l'angle et la vitesse d'une subduction à partir des données Pression - Température des unités écaillées durant celle-ci. Ces estimations permettent de reconstruire la géométrie 3D et l'évolution de la subduction Alpine, permettant de valider un nouveau modèle d'exhumation~: l'extension associée au retrait de la subduction. Des modèles paléogéographiques permettent d'imager ce modèle d'exhumation, mettant en évidence le synchronisme de l'exhumation, du retrait de la subduction.

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Noury, Mélanie. "Evolution géologique de l'avant-arc sud péruvien : apports des données géo-thermochronologiques". Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENU058/document.

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La marge sud péruvienne est située au niveau d’une zone majeure de subduction océan continent depuis au moins le Paleozoique inférieur. C’est dans ce cadre que s’est formé l’un des plus importants orogènes du monde : les Andes Centrales. En effet, l’épaisseur crustale y est >60 km et ce sur une importante surface. Cependant, on considère actuellement que ce surrépaississement a été acquis incrémentalement seulement depuis ~30 Ma. Dans le but de comprendre comment et quand ce surrépaississement est apparu, la majeure partie des études précédentes s’est focalisée sur l’évolution de l’arc magmatique et sur l’histoire de la déformation, du soulèvement et de l’érosion de la zone d’arrière arc. Cependant, l’évolution tectonique et thermique de l’avant arc reste mal connue bien que cette zone soit susceptible de bien enregistrer les changements liés à la dynamique de subduction.Cette thèse à pour objectif de mieux contraindre l’évolution thermique et les couplages entre les processus magmatiques, tectoniques et sédimentaires depuis 200 Ma dans l’avant-arcactuel du sud du Pérou. De nouvelles données géo-thermochronologiques couplées à une nouvelle carte tecto-stratigraphique éclaircissent l’évolution de la marge péruvienne depuis le Jurassique. Trois périodes clefs sont analysées dans ce mémoire : le début de l’épaississement crustal, les déformations de l’avant-arc associées à la formation de l’Orocline bolivien et l’épaississement crustal de l’orogène des Andes Centrales pendant le Néogène.Nous montrons que l’épaississement crustal a probablement commencé entre 90 et 50Ma après plus de 200 Ma d’amincissement, et ce a la faveur d’une évolution en trois étapes :croissance initiale (90-74 Ma), « flare-up » (74-62 Ma) et effondrement extensionnel (62-50Ma). L’extension a ensuite prédominé dans l’avant-arc tout en diminuant progressivement jusqu’à ~30 Ma. Par ailleurs, nous mettons en évidence d’importantes zones de faillesnormales orientées perpendiculairement à la marge sud-péruvienne et qui délimitent de grands blocs basculés vers le nord-ouest. Ces déformations révèlent une extension parallèle à l’orogène dans l’avant arc pendant le Paléogène, probablement due à la formation de l’Orocline bolivien par rotation antihoraire de blocs rigides. Enfin, les traits géomorphiques visibles dans la zone cotiere du sud du Pérou permettent de définir deux périodes de soulèvement de la surface (entre 23 et 10 Ma et depuis ~4.5 Ma), séparées par une période de subsidence (entre ~10 et ~4.5 Ma). La même chronologie ayant été décrite sur le versant Amazonien de l’orogène, nous proposons que cette évolution soit due à des variations à grande échelle de l’épaisseur crustale ; le soulèvement de la surface étant provoqué par addition à la croûte de magma d’origine mantellique et la subsidence par un flux de matériel crustal ductile depuis les zones précédemment sur-épaissies
The southern Peruvian margin has been located above a major ocean-continentsubduction zone since at least the Early Paleozoic, resulting in the formation of one of thelargest orogens in the world: the Central Andes, where crustal thickness is >60 km over a largearea. This overthickening is currently thought to have occurred incrementally only during thelast 30 Ma. To understand how and when crustal overthickening was acquired, most of theprevious studies have focused on the magmatic arc evolution and on deformation, uplift anderosion history of the backarc. The tectono-thermal Cenozoic evolution of the forearc remainspoorly known, whereas it is a zone prone to recording changes in subduction dynamics.The objective of this dissertation is to address the thermal evolution and the couplingbetween magmatic, tectonic and sedimentary processes over the past 200 Ma in the presentdayforearc of southern Peru where the crust thickens from ~30 km along the coastline tomore than 60 km under the present-day volcanic arc. New geo- and thermochronological datacoupled to a novel geological map illuminate the evolution of the south Peruvian margin sincethe Jurassic. Three key periods of the margin evolution are addressed in this dissertation: theonset of crustal thickening, the deformations associated in the forearc with the formation ofthe Bolivian Orocline and the Neogene crustal thickening of the Central Andean orogen.We show that crustal thickening likely began between 90 and ~50 Ma after more than200 My of lithospheric thinning during a three step evolution of the magmatic arc as follows:growth (90-74 Ma), flare-up (74-62 Ma), extensional collapse (62-50 Ma). Extension prevailedin the forearc since then and waned until ~30 Ma. In addition, we evidence important normalfault zones striking perpendicular to the southern Peruvian margin that delineate largenorthwestward tilted blocks. This deformation reveals orogen parallel extension in the forearcduring the Paleogene likely due to the formation of the Bolivian Orocline by counterclockwiserotation of rigid blocks. Finally, geomorphic features in the coastal area of southern Perureveal two periods of surface uplift (~23 to 10 Ma and since ~4.5 Ma), separated by a period ofsurface subsidence (from ~10 to ~4.5 Ma). The same chronology has been described on theAmazonian side of the Central Andean orogen. We thus propose that this evolution is due tolarge-scale crustal thickness variations; surface uplift being triggered by addition of mantlederivedmagmas to the crust and subsidence by ductile flow away from the previouslyoverthickened crust

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Fasola, Shannon Lee. "New perspective on the transition from flat to steeper subduction in Oaxaca, Mexico, based on seismicity, nonvolcanic tremor, and slow slip". Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461778598.

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Kanjorski, Nancy Marie. "Cocos plate structure along the Middle America subduction zone off Oaxaca and Guerrero, Mexico : influence of subducting plate morphology on tectonics and seismicity /". Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3076343.

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Scalabrino, Bruno. "Déformation d'un continent au-dessus d'une dorsale océanique active en subduction". Phd thesis, Montpellier 2, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00557618.

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La subduction d'une dorsale active sous un continent est un processus inévitable dans l'évolution des chaînes de subduction. Le travail de cette thèse concerne l'évolution de la Cordillère de Patagonie Centrale, à la latitude du point triple du Chili, en relation avec la subduction de la dorsale active du Chili induisant le développement d'une fenêtre asthénosphérique sous la plaque sudaméricaine. A l'aide d'une approche morphologique, structurale, couplée à l'analyse d'images satellites et topographiques, nous montrons l'influence de la fenêtre asthénosphérique depuis 3 Ma sur l'évolution morphostructurale de la Patagonie Centrale. Au cours du Pliocène, la Cordillère de Patagonie Centrale est marquée par une phase d'extension majeure induisant la formation de dépressions transverses et internes à la chaîne. L'inversion négative du relief responsable de la topographie générale de type rift induit l'inversion du front morphotectonique et la déconnexion du piedmont volcano-sédimentaire du reste de la Cordillère à partir de 3 Ma. L'extension radiale dont l'amplitude est comprise entre 800 mètres et 3500 mètres, se localise dans la plupart des cas au niveau de failles polyphasées. L'évolution morphostructurale plioquaternaire proposée est directement reliée à l'ouverture de la fenêtre asthénosphérique à 3 Ma sous la Patagonie et à la remontée de matériel asthénosphérique chaud induisant la collapse régionale de la Cordillère de Patagonie Centrale.

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Yang, Jiaming. "Melting in the Mantle Wedge: Quantifying the Effects of Crustal Morphology and Viscous Decoupling on Melt Production with Application to the Cascadia Subduction Zone". PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3880.

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Arc magmatism is sustained by the complex interactions between the subducting slab, the overriding plate, and the mantle wedge. Partial melting of mantle peridotite is achieved by fluid-induced flux melting and decompression melting due to upward flow. The distribution of melting is sensitive to temperature, the pattern of flow, and the pressure in the mantle wedge. The arc front is the surface manifestation of partial melting in the mantle wedge and is characterized by a narrow chain of active volcanoes that migrate in time. The conventional interpretation is that changes in slab dip angle lead to changes in the arc front position relative to the trench. We explore an alternative hypothesis: evolution of the overlying plate, specifically thickening of the arc root, causes arc front migration. We investigate the effects of varying crustal morphology and viscous decoupling of the shallow slab-mantle interface on melt production using 2D numerical models involving a stationary overriding plate, a subducting plate with prescribed motion, and a dynamic mantle wedge. Melt production is quantified using a hydrous melting parameterization. We conclude: 1) Localized lithospheric thickening shifts the locus of melt production trenchward while thinning shifts melting landward. 2) Inclined LAB topography modulates the asthenospheric flow field, producing a narrow, well-defined arc front. 3) Thickening of the overriding plate exerts increased torque on the slab, favoring shallowing of the dip angle. 4) Viscous decoupling produces a cold, stagnant forearc mantle but promotes arc front melting due to reduction in the radius of corner flow, leading to higher temperatures at the coupling/decoupling transition.

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Rehak, Katrin. "Pliocene-Pleistocene landscape evolution in south-central Chile : interactions between tectonic, geomorphic, and climatic processes". Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1979/.

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Landscapes evolve in a complex interplay between climate and tectonics. Thus, the geomorphic characteristics of a landscape can only be understood if both, climatic and tectonic signals of past and ongoing processes can be identified. In order to evaluate the impact of both forcing factors it is crucial to quantify the evolution of geomorphic markers in natural environments. The Cenozoic Andes are an ideal setting to evaluate tectonic and climatic aspects of landscape evolution at different time and length scales in different natural compartments. The Andean Cordillera constitutes the type subduction orogen and is associated with the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate beneath the South American continent since at least 200 million years. In Chile and the adjacent regions this convergent margin is characterized by active tectonics, volcanism, and mountain building. Importantly, along the coast of Chile megathrust earthquakes occur frequently and influence landscape evolution. In fact, the largest earthquake ever recorded occurred in south-central Chile in 1960 and comprised a rupture zone of ~ 1000 km length. However, on longer time scales beyond historic documentation of seismicity it is not well known, how such seismotectonic segments have behaved and how they influence the geomorphic evolution of the coastal realms. With several semi-independent morphotectonic segments, recurrent megathrust earthquakes, and a plethora of geomorphic features indicating sustained tectonism, the margin of Chile is thus a key area to study relationships between surface processes and tectonics. In this study, I combined geomorphology, geochronology, sedimentology, and morphometry to quantify the Pliocene-Pleistocene landscape evolution of the tectonically active south-central Chile forearc. Thereby, I provide (1) new results about the influence of seismotectonic forearc segmentation on the geomorphic evolution and (2) new insights in the interaction between climate and tectonics with respect to the morphology of the Chilean forearc region. In particular, I show that the forearc is characterized by three long-term segments that are not correlated with short-lived earthquake-rupture zones that may. These segments are the Nahuelbuta, Toltén, and Bueno segments, each recording a distinct geomorphic and tectonic evolution. The Nahuelbuta and Bueno segments are undergoing active tectonic uplift. The long-term behavior of these two segments is manifested in form of two doubly plunging, growing antiforms that constitute an integral part of the Coastal Cordillera and record the uplift of marine and river terraces. In addition, these uplifting areas have caused major changes in flow directions or rivers. In contrast, the Toltén segment, situated between the two other segments, appears to be quasi-stable. In order to further quantify uplift and incision in the actively deforming Nahuelbuta segment, I dated an erosion surface and fluvial terraces in the Coastal Cordillera with cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al and optically stimulated luminescence, respectively. According to my results, late Pleistocene uplift rates corresponding to 0.88 mm a-1 are faster than surface-uplift rates averaging over the last 5 Ma, which are in the range of 0.21 mm a-1. This discrepancy suggests that surface uplift is highly variable in time and space and might preferably concentrate along reverse faults as indicated by a late Pleistocene flow reversal. In addition, the results of exposure dating with cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al indicate that the morphotectonic segmentation of this region of the forearc has been established in Pliocene time, coeval with the initiation of uplift of the Coastal Cordillera about 5 Ma ago, inferred to be related to a shift in subduction mode from erosion to accretion. Finally, I dated volcanic clasts obtained from alluvial surfaces in the Central Depression, a low-relief sector separating the Coastal from the Main Cordillera, with stable cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne, in order to reveal the controls of sediment accumulation in the forearc. My results document that these gently sloping surfaces have been deposited 150 to 300 ka ago. This deposition may be related to changes in the erosional regime during glacial episodes. Taken together, the data indicates that the overall geomorphic expression of the forearc is of post-Miocene age and may be intimately related to a climatic overprint of the tectonic system. This climatic forcing is also reflected in the topography and local relief of the Central and Southern Andes that vary considerably along the margin, determined by the dominant surface process that in turn is eventually controlled by climate. However, relief also partly reflects surface processes that have taken place under past climatic conditions. This emphasizes that due care has to be exercised when interpreting landscapes as mirrors of modern climates.
Landschaften entwickeln sich im komplexen Zusammenspiel von Klima und Tektonik. Demzufolge können sie nur verstanden werden, wenn sowohl klimatische als auch tektonische Signale vergangener und rezenter Prozesse identifiziert werden. Um den Einfluss beider Faktoren zu bewerten, ist es deshalb wichtig, die Evolution geomorphologischer Marker in der Natur zu quantifizieren. Die känozoischen Anden sind eine ideale Region, um tektonische und klimatische Aspekte der Landschaftsentwicklung auf verschiedenen Zeit- und Längenskalen zu erforschen. Sie sind das Modell-Subduktionsorogen, assoziiert mit der Subduktion der ozeanischen Nazca-Platte unter den südamerikanischen Kontinent seit ca. 200 Mio Jahren. In Chile ist dieser konvergente Plattenrand geprägt von aktiver Tektonik, Vulkanismus und Gebirgsbildung. Bedeutenderweise ereignen sich entlang der Küste häufig Megaerdbeben, die die Landschaftsentwicklung stark beeinflussen. Tatsächlich ereignete sich das größte jemals aufgezeichnete Erdbeben mit einer Bruchzone von ca. 1000 km Länge 1960 im südlichen Zentralchile. Nichtsdestotrotz ist auf längeren Zeitskalen über historische Dokumentationen hinaus nicht bekannt, wie sich solche seismotektonischen Segmente verhalten und wie sie die geomorphologische Entwicklung der Küstengebiete beeinflussen. Mit semi-unabhängigen morphotektonischen Segmenten, wiederkehrenden Megaerdbeben und einer Fülle geomorphologischer Marker, die aktive Tektonik anzeigen, ist somit der Plattenrand von Chile ein Schlüsselgebiet für das Studium von Zusammenhängen zwischen Oberflächenprozessen und Tektonik. In dieser Arbeit kombiniere ich Geomorphologie, Geochronologie, Sedimentologie und Morphometrie, um die plio-pleistozäne Landschaftsentwicklung des tektonisch aktiven süd-zentralchilenischen Forearcs zu quantifizieren. Mit dieser Analyse liefere ich (1) neue Ergebnisse über den Einfluss seismotektonischer Forearc-Segmentierung auf die geomorphologischen Entwicklung und (2) neue Erkenntnisse über die Interaktion zwischen Klima und Tektonik bezüglich der Gestaltung des chilenischen Forearcs. Ich zeige, dass der Forearc in drei langlebige morphotektonische Segmente gegliedert ist, die nicht mit kurzlebigen Erdbebenbruchzonen korrelieren. Die Segmente heißen Nahuelbuta, Toltén und Bueno Segment, wovon jedes eine andere geomorphologische und tektonische Entwicklung durchläuft. Die Nahuelbuta und Bueno Segmente unterliegen aktiver tektonischer Hebung. Das langfristige Verhalten dieser beiden Segmente manifestiert sich in zwei beidseitig abtauchenden, wachsenden Antiklinalen, die integraler Bestandteil des Küstengebirges sind und die Hebung von marinen und fluvialen Terrassen aufzeichnen. Die Hebung verursachte weitreichende Veränderungen in den Fließrichtungen des Gewässernetzes. Im Gegensatz dazu ist das Toltén Segment, das sich zwischen den beiden anderen Segmenten befindet, quasi-stabil. Um die Hebung und Einschneidung in dem tektonisch aktiven Nahuelbuta Segment zu quantifizieren, habe ich eine Erosionsfläche und fluviale Terrassen in dem Küstengebirge mit kosmogenem 10Be und 26Al bzw. optisch stimulierter Lumineszenz datiert. Meinen Ergebnissen zufolge sind die spätpleistozänen Hebungsraten, die ca. 0,88 mm a-1 betragen, höher als die Oberflächenhebungsraten, die über die letzten 5 Mio Jahre mitteln und ca. 0,21 mm a-1 betragen. Diese Diskrepanz deutet an, dass die Hebung der Oberfläche räumlich und zeitlich sehr stark variiert und sich präferiert an Aufschiebungen konzentriert. Zusätzlich zeigen die Ergebnisse der Expositionsdatierung mit kosmogenem 10Be und 26Al, dass die morphotektonische Segmentierung im Pliozän etabliert wurde, zeitgleich mit dem Beginn der Hebung des Küstengebirges vor ca. 5 Mio Jahren infolge eines Wechsels des Subduktionsmodus von Erosion zu Akkretion. Schließlich habe ich vulkanische Klasten, die aus alluvialen Flächen im Längstal stammen, mit den stabilen kosmogenen Nukliden 3He und 21Ne datiert, um Aufschluss über die Faktoren zu erhalten, die die Sedimentablagerung im Forearc bestimmen. Meine Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass diese flach einfallenden Oberflächen, die vor 150.000 bis 300.000 Jahren abgelagert wurden, in Zusammenhang mit Änderungen des Erosionsregimes in glazialen Episoden entstanden sind. Zusammenfassend zeigen die Daten, dass der heutige geomorphologische Ausdruck des Forearcs post-Miozän und eng mit einer klimatischen Überprägung des tektonischen Systems verknüpft ist. Der klimatische Einfluss spiegelt sich ebenfalls in der Topographie und dem lokalen Relief der Zentral- und Südanden wider. Beide Parameter variieren stark entlang des Plattenrandes, bestimmt durch den jeweils dominierenden Oberflächenprozess, der wiederum letztendlich vom vorherrschenden Klima abhängt. Allerdings reflektiert das Relief teilweise Oberflächenprozesse, die unter vergangenen Klimaten aktiv waren. Das betont die äußerst große Vorsicht, die nötig ist, wenn Landschaften als Spiegel des aktuellen Klimas interpretiert werden.

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Pedley, Katherine Louise. "Modelling Submarine Landscape Evolution in Response to Subduction Processes, Northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4648.

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The steep forearc slope along the northern sector of the obliquely convergent Hikurangi subduction zone is characteristic of non-accretionary and tectonically eroding continental margins, with reduced sediment supply in the trench relative to further south, and the presence of seamount relief on the Hikurangi Plateau. These seamounts influence the subduction process and the structurally-driven geomorphic development of the over-riding margin of the Australian Plate frontal wedge. The Poverty Indentation represents an unusual, especially challenging and therefore exciting location to investigate the tectonic and eustatic effects on this sedimentary system because of: (i) the geometry and obliquity of the subducting seamounts; (ii) the influence of multiple repeated seamount impacts; (iii) the effects of structurally-driven over-steeping and associated widespread occurrence of gravitational collapse and mass movements; and (iv) the development of a large canyon system down the axis of the indentation. High quality bathymetric and backscatter images of the Poverty Indentation submarine re-entrant across the northern part of the Hikurangi margin were obtained by scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) (Lewis, 2001) using a SIMRAD EM300 multibeam swath-mapping system, hull-mounted on NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa. The entire accretionary slope of the re-entrant was mapped, at depths ranging from 100 to 3500 metres. The level of seafloor morphologic resolution is comparable with some of the most detailed Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) onshore. The detailed digital swath images are complemented by the availability of excellent high-quality processed multi-channel seismic reflection data, single channel high-resolution 3.5 kHz seismic reflection data, as well as core samples. Combined, these data support this study of the complex interactions of tectonic deformation with slope sedimentary processes and slope submarine geomorphic evolution at a convergent margin. The origin of the Poverty Indentation, on the inboard trench-slope at the transition from the northern to central sectors of the Hikurangi margin, is attributed to multiple seamount impacts over the last c. 2 Myr period. This has been accompanied by canyon incision, thrust fault propagation into the trench fill, and numerous large-scale gravitational collapse structures with multiple debris flow and avalanche deposits ranging in down-slope length from a few hundred metres to more than 40 km. The indentation is directly offshore of the Waipaoa River which is currently estimated to have a high sediment yield into the marine system. The indentation is recognised as the “Sink” for sediments derived from the Waipaoa River catchment, one of two target river systems chosen for the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded MARGINS “Source-to-Sink” initiative. The Poverty Canyon stretches 70 km from the continental shelf edge directly offshore from the Waipaoa to the trench floor, incising into the axis of the indentation. The sediment delivered to the margin from the Waipaoa catchment and elsewhere during sea-level high-stands, including the Holocene, has remained largely trapped in a large depocentre on the Poverty shelf, while during low-stand cycles, sediment bypassed the shelf to develop a prograding clinoform sequence out onto the upper slope. The formation of the indentation and the development of the upper branches of the Poverty Canyon system have led to the progressive removal of a substantial part of this prograding wedge by mass movements and gully incision. Sediment has also accumulated in the head of the Poverty Canyon and episodic mass flows contribute significantly to continued modification of the indentation by driving canyon incision and triggering instability in the adjacent slopes. Prograding clinoforms lying seaward of active faults beneath the shelf, and overlying a buried inactive thrust system beneath the upper slope, reveal a history of deformation accompanied by the creation of accommodation space. There is some more recent activity on shelf faults (i.e. Lachlan Fault) and at the transition into the lower margin, but reduced (~2 %) or no evidence of recent deformation for the majority of the upper to mid-slope. This is in contrast to current activity (approximately 24 to 47% shortening) across the lower slope and frontal wedge regions of the indentation. The middle to lower Poverty Canyon represents a structural transition zone within the indentation coincident with the indentation axis. The lower to mid-slope south of the canyon conforms more closely to a classic accretionary slope deformation style with a series of east-facing thrust-propagated asymmetric anticlines separated by early-stage slope basins. North of the canyon system, sediment starvation and seamount impact has resulted in frontal tectonic erosion associated with the development of an over-steepened lower to mid-slope margin, fault reactivation and structural inversion and over-printing. Evidence points to at least three main seamount subduction events within the Poverty Indentation, each with different margin responses: i) older substantial seamount impact that drove the first-order perturbation in the margin, since approximately ~1-2 Ma ii) subducted seamount(s) now beneath Pantin and Paritu Ridge complexes, initially impacting on the margin approximately ~0.5 Ma, and iii) incipient seamount subduction of the Puke Seamount at the current deformation front. The overall geometry and geomorphology of the wider indentation appears to conform to the geometry accompanying the structure observed in sandbox models after the seamount has passed completely through the deformation front. The main morphological features correlating with sandbox models include: i) the axial re-entrant down which the Poverty Canyon now incises; ii) the re-establishment of an accretionary wedge to the south of the indentation axis, accompanied by out-stepping, deformation front propagation into the trench fill sequence, particularly towards the mouth of the canyon; iii) the linear north margin of the indentation with respect to the more arcuate shape of the southern accretionary wedge; and, iv) the set of faults cutting obliquely across the deformation front near the mouth of the canyon. Many of the observed structural and geomorphic features of the Poverty Indentation also correlate well both with other sediment-rich convergent margins where seamount subduction is prevalent particularly the Nankai and Sumatra margins, and the sediment-starved Costa Rican margin. While submarine canyon systems are certainly present on other convergent margins undergoing seamount subduction there appears to be no other documented shelf to trench extending canyon system developing in the axis of such a re-entrant, as is dominating the Poverty Indentation. Ongoing modification of the Indentation appears to be driven by: i) continued smaller seamount impacts at the deformation front, and currently subducting beneath the mid-lower slope, ii) low and high sea-level stands accompanied by variations on sediment flux from the continental shelf, iii) over-steepening of the deformation front and mass movement, particularly from the shelf edge and upper slope.

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Johnson, Julie A. "A Geochemical Study of Crustal Plutonic Rocks from the Southern Mariana Trench Forearc: Relationship to Volcanic Rocks Erupted during Subduction Initiation". FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1249.

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Two suites of intermediate-felsic plutonic rocks were recovered by dredges RD63 and RD64 (R/V KK81-06-26) from the northern wall of the Mariana trench near Guam, which is located in the southern part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM) island arc system. The locations of the dredges are significant as the area contains volcanic rocks (forearc basalts and boninites) that have been pivotal in explaining processes that occur when one lithospheric plate initially begins to subduct beneath another. The plutonic rocks have been classified based on petrologic and geochemical analyses, which provides insight to their origin and evolution in context of the surrounding Mariana trench. Based on whole rock geochemistry, these rocks (SiO2: 49-78 wt%) have island arc trace element signatures (Ba, Sr, Rb enrichment, Nb-Ta negative anomalies, U/Th enrichment), consistent with the adjacent IBM volcanics. Depletion of rare earth elements (REEs) relative to primitive mantle and excess Zr and Hf compared to the middle REEs indicate that the source of the plutonic rocks is similar to boninites and transitional boninites. Early IBM volcanic rocks define isotopic fields (Sr, Pb, Nd and Hf-isotopes) that represent different aspects of the subduction process (e.g., sediment influence, mantle provenance). The southern Mariana plutonic rocks overlap these fields, but show a clear distinction between RD63 and RD64. Modeling of the REEs, Zr and Hf shows that the plutonic suites formed via melting of boninite crust or by crystallization from a boninite-like magma rather than other sources that are found in the IBM system. The data presented support the hypothesis that the plutonic rocks from RD63 and RD64 are products of subduction initiation and are likely pieces of middle crust in the forearc exposed at the surface by faulting and serpentine mudvolcanoes. Their existence shows that intermediate-felsic crust may form very early in the history of an intra-oceanic island arc system. Plutonic rocks with similar formation histories may exist in obducted suprasubduction zone ophiolites and would be evidence that felsic-intermediate forearc plutonics are eventually accreted to the continents.

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Maurin, Thomas. "Impact de la ride 90°E et du flux crustal Est-Tibétain sur l'évolution récente de la subduction oblique Indo-Birmane : approche géologique, sismique et géodésique". Phd thesis, Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00425058.

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La frontière tectonique entre les plaques indienne et birmane est principalement décrochante avec une faible composante de raccourcissement. La plaque subduite, le bassin du Bengale, est parcourue par des hétérogénéités crustales majeures acquises lors de son processus de formation et de migration vers le Nord (rides de point chaud, failles transformantes...). La plaque supérieure, la microplaque birmane, délimitée à l'Est par la faille décrochante dextre de Sagaing, est dans la zone d'influence du flux crustal Est-Tibétain.
Le long d'une large coupe Terre-Mer depuis le bassin du Bengale jusqu'au Nord de la Birmanie, je me suis intéressé à la géométrie structurale et à la cinématique de la subduction hyper-oblique Indo-Birmane en insistant sur les effets d'éléments perturbateurs (flux et hétérogénéités crustaux). Par une approche pluridisciplinaire combinant des observations géologiques structurales de terrain, des données géophysiques marines et des mesures géodésiques, je présente un modèle d'évolution néogène de la subduction oblique en réponse à ces perturbations. Une étude de la sismicité et quelques mesures paléomagnétiques ont complété ce travail.

La ride de 90°E, formée au sein de la croûte océanique du Bengale vers 100Ma, est entrée en collision avec la marge Birmane au Miocène supérieur. Elle a probablement bloqué la subduction dans sa partie méridionale de telle sorte que seule une déformation décrochante dextre le long de son flanc Est est exprimé structuralement. Au Nord de la ride, le prisme externe Indo-Birman est libre de se développer rapidement vers l'Ouest depuis 2Ma à la faveur d'une forte épaisseur de sédiments déposés sur la plaque plongeante (delta du Ganges-Brahmapoutre).
Ce prisme Indo-Birman, construit en convergence hyper-oblique, a enregistré un partitionnement de la déformation : les zones internes sont cisaillées sur une direction Nord-Sud et les zones externes sont raccourcies sur une direction Est-Ouest.
La faille de Sagaing est défléchie de plus de 100km vers l'Ouest dans sa partie Nord. Je propose un modèle dans lequel le flux crustal résultant de l'effondrement du Tibet, est responsable de cette inflexion. Ce modèle questionne le rôle de ce flux dans la construction du prisme partitionné. Appuyé sur l'ensemble des données géodésiques disponibles autour de la syntaxe Est Himalayenne, il établit un lien entre les déformations finis néogènes de la région.

Les données de sismique réflexion ont apporté des contraintes fortes sur la partie marine de la section. Ainsi, la présence de la ride de 90°E et la nature océanique de la croûte du Bengale ont pu être fixées. En revanche, le flux crustal Est-Tibétain reste mal compris. Les données géodésiques permettent d'en approcher la cinématique mais il est nécessaire, pour en connaître la nature, d'y combiner des données géologiques de terrain, qui sont les seuls à permettre l'observation direct de la déformation crustale profonde aujourd'hui exhumée. Ces observations géologiques peuvent aussi apporter des éléments de réponses sur la stabilité du flux au cours du temps. Un travail de modélisation doit encore être mené pour confronter ces idées nouvelles aux propriétés physiques de la lithosphère continentale en cours de déformation.

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Gerber, William. "Evolution tectono-métamorphique du Briançonnais interne (Alpes Occidentales, massifs de Vanoise Sud et d'Ambin) : comportement du socle et de sa couverture dans un contexte de subduction continentale profonde". Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00340057.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est de caractériser les principales étapes de l'exhumation d'unités métamorphisées à haute pression, dans un contexte de subduction continentale profonde de la plaque européenne plongeant sous la plaque apulienne. Les cibles choisies sont les massifs de Vanoise Sud et d'Ambin (Zone Briançonnaise Interne des Alpes Occidentales). Ils renferment des unités de socle et de couverture, ayant toutes été métamorphisées à haute pression.

Notre travail de terrain permet de cartographier en détail les macrostructures (schistosités, linéations, plis, bandes de cisaillement), et de proposer un calendrier des déformations. L'étude des microstructures, associée à l'analyse pétrologique des phases minérales, nous permet de définir les assemblages minéralogiques développés à chaque étape de déformation (D1, D2). Les estimations thermo-barométriques, couplées aux datations Ar-Ar in situ sur phengite (inédite dans les deux massifs), nous permettent de reconstituer dans un espace Pression-Température-temps-déformation, les principales étapes de l'exhumation des unités de socle et de couverture :

- Une première phase alpine (D1) se développe dans le faciès des Schistes Bleus vers 50 Ma, et correspond au début de l'exhumation des unités subductées. Dans le massif de Vanoise Sud, nous montrons un fort contraste métamorphique entre les unités de socle (17kbar-480°C) et de couverture (11kbar–300°C). Nous l'interprétons comme la conséquence d'un découplage précoce au cours de l'enfouissement, en relation avec les cisaillements syn-Schistes Bleus à vergence NW.

- L'événement D2 débute à 43 Ma dans le faciès des Schistes Bleus de bas grade, et se poursuit dans le faciès des Schistes Verts. L'événement cisaillant majeur à vergence est (C2) débute à 37 Ma et atteint son paroxysme à 34 Ma. D2 est associé à un réchauffement généralisé dans l'ensemble de la pile structurale (+100°C), qui permet d'atteindre le pic thermique (530°C-7kbar dans le socle, et 350°C–6kbar dans la couverture).

- En Vanoise Sud, les unités de socle et de couverture sont juxtaposées autour de 30 Ma, à la faveur des cisaillements vers l'Est (3-4kbar-350°C). Nous repoussons la limite des dernières déformations ductiles à 28 Ma (3kbar-300°C).

- L'exhumation tardive des unités se produit dans le domaine cassant, en trois étapes :
(i) entre 28 et 20 Ma : vitesses élevées atteignant 1.5 km/Ma.
(ii) entre 20 et 5 Ma : les unités stationnent à 3km de profondeur (période de stabilité thermique, vitesse de refroidissement = 1°C/Ma).
(iii) depuis 5Ma, nouvelle accélération de l'exhumation (0.6 km/Ma).

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Scalabrino, Bruno. "Déformation d'un continent au-dessus d'une dorsale océanique active en subduction : la transversale du point triple du Chili, Patagonie Centrale (Chili-Argentine)". Phd thesis, Montpellier 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009MON20119.

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La subduction d'une dorsale active sous un continent est un processus inévitable dans l'évolution des chaînes de subduction. Le travail de cette thèse concerne l'évolution de la Cordillère de Patagonie Centrale, à la latitude du point triple du Chili, en relation avec la subduction de la dorsale active du Chili induisant le développement d'une fenêtre asthénosphérique sous la plaque sud-américaine. A l'aide d'une approche morphologique, structurale, couplée à l'analyse d'images satellites et topographiques, nous montrons l'influence de la fenêtre asthénosphérique depuis 3 Ma sur l'évolution morphostructurale de la Patagonie Centrale. Au cours du Pliocène, la Cordillère de Patagonie Centrale est marquée par une phase d'extension majeure induisant la formation de dépressions transverses et internes à la chaîne. L'inversion négative du relief responsable de la topographie générale de type rift induit l'inversion du front morphotectonique et la déconnexion du piedmont volcano-sédimentaire du reste de la Cordillère à partir de 3 Ma. L'extension radiale dont l'amplitude est comprise entre 800 mètres et 3500 mètres, se localise dans la plupart des cas au niveau de failles polyphasées. L'évolution morphostructurale plio-quaternaire proposée est directement reliée à l'ouverture de la fenêtre asthénosphérique à 3 Ma sous la Patagonie et à la remontée de matériel asthénosphérique chaud induisant la collapse régionale de la Cordillère de Patagonie Centrale
The spreading ridge subduction is an unavoidable process during the subduction-related belt elovution. The aim of this thesis concerns the evolution of the Central Patagonian Cordillera, at the latitude of the Chile triple junction, in relation with the Chile spreading ridge subduction inducing opening of a slab-window beneath the South American plate. By a morphologic, and a structural analysis, coupled with the analysis of satelittes and topographic images, we show the influence of the slab-window development at 3 Ma on the morphostructural evolution of the Central Patagonia. During the Pliocene, the Central Patagonian Cordillera experiences a major extensional phase inducing the formation of transverse and internal depressions. Negative tectonic inversion, responsible to the rift-type topography, induces the inversion of the morphotectonic front and the disruption of the volcano-sedimentary piedmont with the rest of the Cordillera at 3 Ma. Radial extensional regime is characterized by a magnitude comprises between 800 m and 3500 meters and vertical movements are localized along polyphazed faults. We suggest that the Plio-Quaternary morphostructural evolution is related to the opening of the slab-window at 3 Ma beneath the Central Patagonia. The upwelling of asthenospheric hot mantle through the slab window induces the regional collapse of the Central Patagonian Cordillera

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Pouderoux, Hugo. "Sédimentation gravitaire et paléosismicité d'une marge active : Exemple de la marge en subduction Hikurangi en Nouvelle-Zélande". Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00755471.

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Les séismes sont à l'origine d'évènements sédimentaires gravitaires (turbidites) dont l'étude permet de reconstituer l'histoire mal connue de la paléosismicité des marges continentales. L'analyse d'une série de carottes de sédiments, collectées stratégiquement dans trois systèmes turbiditiques de la marge en subduction Hikurangi de Nouvelle-Zélande, permet d'établir les caractéristiques, les facteurs de contrôle et les mécanismes déclencheurs de la sédimentation gravitaire des derniers 18,000 ans. La succession sédimentaire comprend quatre lithofaciès et modes de dépôt : hémipélagite (sédimentation marine), turbidites (courants de turbidité), débrites (débris flows) et tephra (retombée de cendres volcaniques), dont l'organisation générale dépend de la morphologie de la marge et des fluctuations glacio-eustatiques. Les crues, les éruptions volcaniques et les " slope failures " sont les trois mécanismes déclencheurs des turbidites. Plus de 90% sont déclenchées par des " slope failures " en haut de pente (150 - 1,200 m) à la suite de séismes. L'adaptation d'un modèle empirique de stabilité de pente suggère que ces turbidites représentent l'enregistrement sédimentaire des ruptures répétées de trois failles actives, dont l'interplaque, et correspondent à des séismes de Mw≥7.3 avec un temps de retour de 150±50 ans. Parmi ces turbidites co-sismiques, 20 montrent une synchronicité de déclenchement sur l'ensemble de la marge et un volume important. Elles correspondent à des ruptures de la zone interplaque de Mw 7.5 - 8.4, dont les temps de retour montrent une phénomène de clustering où alternent les périodes actives à faible temps de retour (305 - 610 ans), et les périodes de quiescence à temps de retour élevé (1480 - 2650 ans). Ce calendrier paléosismique intégré aux modélisations en cours devrait permettre de mieux appréhender l'aléa sismique et les risques pour la population.

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Regard, Vincent. "Variations temporelle et spatiale de la transition subduction-collision : tectonique de la transition Zagros-Makran (Iran) et modélisation analogique". Phd thesis, Aix-Marseille 3, 2003. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00003777.

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Les transitions spatiale et temporelle de la subduction à la collision sont des charnières géodynamiques. Nous précisons dans ce travail le rôle et le devenir de ces zones grâce à des modèles analogiques et l'étude tectonique d'un cas réel. La modélisation a montré qu'une transition temporelle entre subduction et collision est toujours marquée par une phase de subduction continentale. La durée de cette phase dépend de la façon dont se déforme la lithosphère subductée en profondeur. Plus elle se déforme, plus courte est la subduction continentale. Dans le cas d'une transition latérale entre subduction et collision, la déformation de la plaque supérieure est aussi fonction de sa résistance à la déformation et notamment de l'existence de zones de faiblesse. Notre analyse tectonique montre que la déformation actuelle à la transition Zagros-Makran (SE Iran) est distribuée sur un large domaine, au niveau de deux systèmes de failles, d'orientation N 160° et N 0°. Le régime est globalement transpressif, et montre deux phases distinctes. 1-Mio-Pliocène : failles inverses avec un probable partitionnement avec des plis. 2-Plio-Quaternaire : déformation purement cassante, avec une contrainte principale horizontale, s1, de direction NE-SO, homogène sur toute la zone. L'analyse de marqueurs géomorphologiques décalés et datés (datations 10Be, et corrélations paléoclimatiques et archéologiques), nous a permis de déterminer les vitesses de déplacement de chaque faille et d'obtenir le déplacement total sur la zone, de 12±2 mm/a dans une direction environ ~10°. La distribution de la déformation montrée par la tectonique peut être attribuée à la prolongation du slab du Makran sous le Zagros, et montre, comme la modélisation, à quel point la déformation de surface est tributaire de processus profonds. La déformation en Iran comme celle des modèles montre de plus une forte localisation de la déformation par des zones de faiblesse héritées de l'histoire géologique régionale.

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Gao, Haiying. "The seismic structures of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the scaling and recurrence patterns of slow slip events". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11230.

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xv, 136 p. : ill. (some col.)
The Pacific Northwest of the United States has been tectonically and magmatically active with the accretion of the Farallon oceanic terrane "Siletzia" ∼50 Ma. The accretion of Siletzia terminated the flat-slab subduction of the Farallon slab and initiated the Cascadia subduction zone. In this dissertation, I focus on both the large-scale tectonic structures preserved seismically in the crust and upper mantle, and the small-scale, short-term aseismic processes on the plate interface. I measure the shear-wave splitting trends around eastern Oregon with a dataset of ∼200 seismometers from 2006-2008 to analyze the upper-mantle anisotropy. The delay times between splitted shear-waves range from 0.8 s to 2.7 s. In the High Lava Plains, the fast polarization direction is approximately E-W with average delay time ∼1.8 s. I infer that there must be significant active flow in a roughly E-W direction in the asthenosphere beneath this area. The splitting pattern is more variable and complicated in NE Oregon, where the crust and mantle lithosphere may be a significant contribution. In terms of the imaged seismic velocity structures, I infer that the Eocene sedimentary basins in south-central Washington lie above a magmatically underplated crust of extended Siletzia lithosphere. Siletzia thrusts under the pre-accretion forearc, and its southeast termination is especially strong and sharp southeast of the Klamath-Blue Mountains gravity lineament. Magmatic intrusion has increased upper crustal velocity as in the less active Washington Cascades, but the higher temperatures beneath the magmatically active Oregon Cascades have a dominating effect. To better understand the physical mechanism of slow slip events on the plate interface, I explore the scaling relationships of various source parameters collected mainly from subduction zones worldwide and also other tectonic environments. The source parameter scaling relationships of slow slip events highlight the similarities and differences between slow slip phenomena and earthquakes. These relationships hold implications for the degree of heterogeneity and fault healing characteristics. The recurrence statistics of northern Cascadia events behave weakly time predictable and moderately anti-slip predictable, which may indicate healing between events. This dissertation includes co-authored materials both previously published and submitted for publication.
Committee in charge: Eugene Humphreys, Chairperson; David Schmidt, Member; Ray Weldon, Member; James Isenberg, Outside Member

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Collot, Julien. "Evolution géodynamique du domaine Ouestoffshore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de ses extensions vers la Nouvelle Zélande". Phd thesis, Université de Bretagne occidentale - Brest, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00540173.

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L'histoire géodynamique du Sud-Ouest Pacifique est contrôlée depuis le Mésozoïque par l'évolution des zones de subduction péri-Pacifique qui ont successivement bordé la marge Est du Gondwana. Le recul de la fosse de subduction par effondrement du panneau plongeant dans le manteau est probablement le moteur de la fragmentation continentale qui a donné naissance à des rifts avortés et des bassins arrière-arcs associés à des arcs volcaniques rémanents. Dans ce contexte géodynamique, les bassins ayant atteint un stade d'océanisation avancé ont enregistré les inversions du champ magnétique terrestre et développé des morphologies typiques de la croûte océanique. Ces caractéristiques ont permis d'identifier l'âge et la nature de la croûte de ces bassins avec un degré de confiance élevé. C'est le cas de la plupart des bassins du Sud-Ouest Pacifique formés après 45 Ma. A l'inverse, les bassins de Nouvelle-Calédonie et de Fairway, plus étroits et recouverts d'épaisses séries sédimentaires ont une origine mal renseignée qui est longtemps restée controversée. Bien que morphologiquement et structuralement remarquables à l'échelle régionale, ces bassins n'interviennent pas dans les schémas actuels de reconstruction géodynamique régionaux. L'objet du présent travail de thèse est d'approfondir la connaissance de la structure et de l'histoire de ces bassins afin d'affiner le puzzle géodynamique du Sud-Ouest Pacifique. Une synthèse géologique régionale, accompagnée d'une carte structurale (planche hors texte A0), permet de replacer ces bassins dans le contexte géologique de l'évolution post-jurassique de la marge Est-Australienne. Les nouvelles données sismiques d'imagerie profonde des campagnes ZoNéCo-11, Noucaplac-2 et TL-1, couplées aux données récentes de forages sur la marge de Taranaki en Nouvelle-Zélande, constituent une base solide de données nouvelles autorisant une interprétation chronostratigraphique rénovée des bassins de Fairway et de Nouvelle-Calédonie ainsi que des rides qui leur sont associées. Ces interprétations complétées par une nouvelle compilation des données gravimétriques et magnétiques régionales permettent de dégager trois étapes dans l'évolution géodynamique de ces bassins : Etape 1 : Formation du Bassin de Fairway - Aotea au Crétacé moyen, en position intra- ou arrière-arc continental, dans un contexte de subduction. La formation de ce bassin, relativement peu profond, reflète les prémices de la déchirure continentale de la marge Est-Gondwanienne au Cénomanien, dont la cause est à rechercher dans un changement de la dynamique de la subduction. Une « verticalisation » de la plaque plongeante aurait entraîné de l'extension dans la plaque chevauchante. L'augmentation du pendage du slab pourrait être attribuée à : (i) un processus gravitaire lié au poids du slab, l'amenant à couler dans l'asthénosphère, engendrant alors un « hinge rollback », (ii) un flux asthénosphérique rétrograde, exerçant une pression horizontale sur le slab le faisant ainsi reculer, et (iii) la cinématique des plaques lithosphériques impliquées dans la subduction pouvant jouer un rôle sur le pendage du slab et pouvant créer des zones de faiblesse dans la plaque chevauchante menant à de l'extension arrière-arc. Un phénomène de « tectonic escape », lié à un blocage de la zone de subduction par le plateau d'Hikurangi à 105 Ma, pourrait aussi être la cause du recul de la subduction menant à de l'extension arrière-arc. Etape 2 : Déformation locale affectant la partie Nord du Bassin de Nouvelle-Calédonie (au large de la Grande Terre, strictement) à l'Eocène terminal, synchrone de l'obduction ophiolotique néo-calédonienne. Cette déformation asymétrique, d'une durée de quelques millions d'années et d'amplitude verticale de l'ordre de 10 km, est marquée par la surrection de la ride de Fairway et la subsidence de la marge Est du bassin, le long de la côte Ouest de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Le Bassin de Nouvelle-Calédonie aurait subsidé sous l'effet de la surcharge engendrée par le charriage de la croûte océanique du Bassin de Sud-Loyauté sur la ride de Norfolk à 37 Ma et aurait réagi comme un bassin flexural d'avant-pays suivant un processus de sous-charriage (underthrusting), au fur et à mesure que la nappe progressait sur le bâti Calédonien. Etape 3 : Subsidence Eocène-Oligocène d'envergure régionale, affectant l'ensemble « Ride de Lord Howe, Bassin de Fairway – Aotea, Ride de Fairway, Bassin de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Ride de Norfolk », de la Nouvelle-Zélande à la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Les traits morphostructuraux associés à cette subsidence suggèrent que l'ablation d'une partie de la croûte inférieure du système est responsable de cette subsidence. Nous émettons ainsi une nouvelle hypothèse selon laquelle les bassins de Nouvelle-Calédonie et de Fairway-Aotea, initialement peu profonds pendant le Crétacé (phase de rifting Crétacé, étape 1), auraient subi une subsidence de grande ampleur à l'Eocène – Oligocène lors de la réactivation de la convergence Australie – Pacifique. La reprise de la convergence vers ~45 Ma aurait entraîné un épaississement crustal de l'ensemble de rides et bassins aboutissant à une instabilité gravitaire de sa racine, provoquant ainsi son détachement et son effondrement dans le manteau. Ces nouvelles interprétations, et en particulier l'âge Crétacé moyen des sédiments les plus anciens des bassins de Fairway et Aotea, ont des implications pour le potentiel pétrolier de la région.

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Rosenbaum, Gideon. "Tectonic reconstruction of the Alpine orogen in the western Mediterranean region". Monash University, School of Geosciences, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9481.

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Poulpiquet, De Jacques. "Etude géophysique d'un marqueur magnétique situé sur la marge continentale sud-armorieaine. Arguments en faveur d'un modèle de suture de plaques". Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 1985. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00675137.

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La modélisation des structures magnétiques qUI définissent depuis le plateau continental sud-armoricain jusqu'à l'intérieur du Bassin Aquitain un "marqueur" linéaire d'une longueur d'environ six cents kilomètres, confirme l'existence d'un accid ent crustal majeur dont les diverses signatures géophysiques (magnétisme, gravimétrie, séismicité) sont compatibles avec une interprétation de suture interplaque. Une tentative de reconstitution spatiale des principales limites interplaques et intraplaques du domaine ibéro-armoricain a conduit à envisager l'existence de deux sutures dont la plus interne délimiterait une éventuelle microplaque "ébroaquitaine". La répartition des zones de magmatisme et de subsidence de la période cambro-ordovicienne ainsi que l'enregristrement à la même époque de mouvements "calédoniens" possiblement compressifs pou;raient s'expliquer en terme d'un processus de convergence de plaques initiés dès le Cambrien supérieur.

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