Collisional Processes and Links to Episodic Changes in Subduction Zones

van Hunen, J.; Miller, M.S.

doi:10.2113/gselements.11.2.119

Collisional Processes and Links to Episodic Changes in Subduction Zones

van Hunen, J.; Miller, M.S.

Authors

Professor Jeroen Van Hunen jeroen.van-hunen@durham.ac.uk
Professor

M.S. Miller

Abstract

Continental collision is commonly accompanied by a sequence of several plate–mantle interactions, including accretion of buoyant features, pulses of slab rollback, slab break-off, formation of slab windows, and lithosphere delamination. Using the combined insight from seismic and dynamical modelling studies, we illustrate how these processes and their characteristic rates and timescales played an important role in shaping the Mediterranean and how they dominated the closure of the Tethyan oceans. Older collisions, such as the one that formed the Norwegian Caledonites, probably experienced similarly complex plate–mantle interaction, even though direct evidence of the associated mantle dynamics is absent.

Citation

van Hunen, J., & Miller, M. (2015). Collisional Processes and Links to Episodic Changes in Subduction Zones. Elements, 11(2), 119-124. https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.11.2.119

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 20, 2014
Online Publication Date	Mar 31, 2015
Publication Date	Apr 1, 2015
Deposit Date	Nov 20, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Jan 16, 2017
Journal	Elements
Print ISSN	1811-5209
Electronic ISSN	1811-5217
Publisher	Mineralogical Society of America
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	11
Issue	2
Pages	119-124
DOI	https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.11.2.119