Feedbacks between subduction dynamics and slab deformation: Combined effects of nonlinear rheology of a weak decoupling layer and phase transitions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10436260" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10436260 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=68viQLYvMJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=68viQLYvMJ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106679" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106679</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Feedbacks between subduction dynamics and slab deformation: Combined effects of nonlinear rheology of a weak decoupling layer and phase transitions
Original language description
Seismic tomography reveals a wide variety of slab deformation in the mantle transition zone and shallow lower mantle. Numerical modeling of subduction has identified several factors that control slab deformation, among them the properties of the mechanical decoupling between subducting and overriding plates was shown to have a major influence on slab velocity, rollback and deformation in the transition zone. Models with weak crust generally yield fast rollback and slab stagnation while stronger crust results in slab penetration into the lower mantle. Here we perform a detailed analysis of the effects of this weak crustal layer. First, in models with constant crustal viscosity, we quantify combined effects of crustal viscosity and thickness. Further we apply nonlinear crustal rheology that combines dislocation creep and pseudoplastic deformation. We test the effects of varying parameterisations of the nonlinear rheological mechanisms and evaluate their effects on slab deformation. We conclude that the variations of subducting slab velocity (controlled by the buoyancy effects of the major phase transitions) induce strong time variations of the crustal viscosity that in turn enforce further acceleration or deceleration of the slab. This feedback between slab velocity and crustal viscosity strenghtens transient behavior of the subducting slabs and enforces slab penetration after a transient period of stagnation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-20818S" target="_blank" >GA18-20818S: Water transportation effects in subduction models with consistent material properties</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
ISSN
0031-9201
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
313
Issue of the periodical within the volume
April
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
106679
UT code for WoS article
000636295700004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102485997