1. Stagnant slab : A review
- Author
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Fukao, Yoshio, Obayashi, Masayuki, Nakakuki, Tomoeki, Deep Slab Project Group, Utada, Hisashi, Suetsugu, Daisuke, Irifune, Tetsuo, Ohtani, Eiji, Yoshioka, Shoichi, Shiobara, Hajime, Kanazawa, Toshihiko, Hirose, Kei, Fukao, Yoshio, Obayashi, Masayuki, Nakakuki, Tomoeki, Deep Slab Project Group, Utada, Hisashi, Suetsugu, Daisuke, Irifune, Tetsuo, Ohtani, Eiji, Yoshioka, Shoichi, Shiobara, Hajime, Kanazawa, Toshihiko, and Hirose, Kei
- Abstract
A stagnant slab is a subducted slab of oceanic lithosphere subhorizontally deflected above, across, or below the 660 km discontinuity. This phenomenon has now been widely recognized beneath subduction zones around the circum-Pacific and in the Mediterranean. Collaboration of seismic and electromagnetic observations, mineral physics measurements, and geodynamic modeling has begun to provide a consistent picture of stagnant slab.
- Published
- 2009