New tomographic images of the Hellenic subduction zone demonstrate slab penetration in
the Aegean Upper Mantle to depths of at least 600 km. Beneath Greece the lower part of the …

Oceanic plateaus, aseismic ridges or seamount chains all have a thickened crust and their
subduction has been proposed as a possible mechanism to explain the occurrence of flat …

Shallow flat subduction is a relatively common feature at present-day subduction zones.
Several mechanisms to explain this feature have been proposed, and can be subdivided into …

Although the initiation of subduction is a key element in plate tectonic schemes for evolution
of lithospheric plates, the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Plate rupture is …

Abstract Analysis of the relation between intraplate stress fields and lithospheric rheology
leads to greater insight into the role that initiation of subduction plays in the tectonic evolution …

A model is presented to describe the cooling of the Earth in the Archaean. At the higher
Archaean mantle temperatures pressure-release melting starts deeper and generates a thicker …

The subduction behaviour of oceanic lithosphere in relation to its age is studied in detail. It
is shown that the penetration depth of subducted lithosphere increases with increasing …

Subduction of young oceanic lithosphere cannot be explained by the gravitational driving
mechanisms of slab pull and ridge push. This deficiency of driving forces can be overcome by …

Results of high resolution seismic tomography showing subducting slabs deflected in the
transition zone and thickened in the lower mantle seem to call for slab material weaker than …

Because of the strongly different conditions in the mantle of the early Earth regarding
temperature and viscosity, present-day geodynamics cannot simply be extrapolated back to the …