Presentation Schedule

  1. Jan. 13: Organization Meeting
  2. Jan. 20
    Zhu, Subduction Zones, by R. J. Stern, Reviews of Geophysics, 40(4), 2002.
  3. Jan. 27
    canceled.
  4. Feb. 3
    Ben, Arc-parallel flow in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua, by K. Hoernle et al., Nature, 451, 2008.
    Encarnacion, Evolution and diversity of subduction zones controlled by slab width, by W. P Schellart et al., Nature, 446, 2007.
  5. Feb. 10
    Yang, Seismic evidence for overpressured subducted oceanic crust and megathrust fault sealing, by P. Audet et al., Nature, 457(1), 2009.
    Guo, Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?, by T. V. Gerya et al., Geology, 36, 43-46, 2008.
  6. Feb. 17
    d'Amico, Subduction beneath southern Italy close the ending: results from seismic tomography, by G Neri et al., SRL, 80, 63-73, 2009.
  7. Feb. 24
    Ren, Subduction origin on early Earth: A hypothesis, by W. L. Hansen, Geology, 35, 1059-1062, 2007.
  8. Mar. 3: Mid-term Exam week
  9. Mar. 10: Spring Break
  10. Mar. 17
    Qiao, Morphotectonics and sedimentation in convergent margin basins: An example from juxtaposed marginal sea basin and foreland basin, Northern South China Sea, by Yu and Huang, Tectonophysics, 466, 241-254, 2009.
    Zhou, Seismic structure beneath the Rivera subduction zone from finite-frequency seismic tomography, by Yang et al., JGR, 114, 2009.
  11. Mar. 24
    Zhao, Accretionary Orogens Through Earth Histrory, by Cawood et al., 2009.
    Sufri, 3D crustal structure and long-period ground motions from a M9.0 megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest region, by Olsen et al., J. Seismol., 12, 145-159, 2008.
  12. Mar. 31
    Chang, Evidence of lower-mantle slab penetration phases in plate motions, by S. Goes et al., Nature, 45, 2008.
    Amer, Subduction initiation, spontaneous and induced, by R. J. Stern, EPSL, 226, 275-292, 2004.
  13. Apr. 7
    Y. Xu, Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibeteau Plateau and Burma, by Li et al., EPSL, 274, 157-168, 2008.
    Gabr, The influence of great earthquakes on volcanic eruption rate along the Chilean subduction zone, by S. Watt et al., EPSL 277, 399-437, 2009.
  14. Apr. 14
    Chen, Seamount subduction erosion in the Nankai Trough and its potential impact on the seismogenic zone, by Bangs et al., Geology 34, 701-704, 2006.
    Veronica, Does active mantle upwelling help drive plate motions?,by Stephen A. Steiner and Clinton P. Conrad, PEPI 161, 103-114, 2007.
  15. Apr. 21
    X. Xu, Density distribution of the India plate beneath the Tibetan plateau: Geophysical and petrological constraints on the kinetics of lower-crustal eclogitization, by Hetenyi et al., EPSL 264, 226-244, 2007.
    K. Koper, Seismic attenuation tomography of the Mariana subduction system: implications for thermal structure, volatile distribution, and slow-spreading dynamics, by S. H. Pozgay et al., G3 (in press).
  16. Apr. 28
    Geoscience faculty annual meeting with graduate students.