Exploring the Missing Pieces: Recovering geologic records of SZI
Subduction zone initiation (SZI) is a critical stage of the Wilson cycle. While our understanding of the mechanisms, and the sequence of...
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Fabio Crameri
- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
A novel SZI forcing scenario
Brandon Shuck and his colleagues suggest that SZI is not always either horizontally driven or vertically driven, but can indeed be both:...
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Fabio Crameri
- Dec 2, 2021
- 1 min
SZI: mid-ocean ridges vs. passive margins
Antoine Auzemery and colleagues study under what conditions SZI is more likely to occur at passive margins than at mid-ocean ridges: We...
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Fabio Crameri
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
Mantle-plume induced subduction
Marzieh Baes and colleagues provide an insightful review of plume-induced subduction: Subduction zone initiation by a hot and buoyant...
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Fabio Crameri
- Sep 20, 2021
- 2 min
Analysis of 70 subduction initiation sites
Serge Lallemand and Diane Arcay provide an exhaustive, careful and insightful overview of the many Cenozoic subduction initiation sites...
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Fabio Crameri
- Aug 23, 2021
- 1 min
Horizontally-forced SZI creates most metamorphic soles
Xin Zhou and Ikuko Wada provide us with another indication about the apparent dominance of horizontally-forced SZI over vertically-forced...
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Fabio Crameri
- Jul 11, 2021
- 1 min
The SZI event to start ocean-plate tectonics
Jinlong Yao and colleagues provide us with new constraints on an SZI event that might mark the onset of deep subduction on the Earth: We...
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Fabio Crameri
- Jun 21, 2021
- 1 min
Puysegur: An SZI event?
Brandon Shuck and his colleagues provide us with an updated view on one of the key ongoing potential SZI events: Geoscientists have...
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Fabio Crameri
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Anomalous SZI
Lulu Zhang and colleagues provide us with a view on subduction zone initiation where, for once, the lighter of two plates is going down:...
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Fabio Crameri
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
📚 SZI Special Collection
Are you working on a project regarding subduction zone initiation? Do you like to make your research openly accessible? Are you a fan of...
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Fabio Crameri
- Feb 17, 2021
- 1 min
SZI in the Scotia Sea region: When and why?
Suzanna van de Lagemaat and her colleagues provide us with an overview and new perspective on the South Sandwich SZI event: We present an...
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Fabio Crameri
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Magma source evolution following SZI
Daniel Coulthard and his colleagues tell us about how the magma source might evolve following SZI: The origin of crust created along the...
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Fabio Crameri
- Dec 10, 2020
- 1 min
✨ Subduction ✨
"Subduction is the primary driver of plate tectonics and has provided a critical exchange of life-supporting elements between the...
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Fabio Crameri
- Oct 10, 2020
- 1 min
Strain localisation mechanisms for SZI
Antoine Auzemery and his colleagues tell us about strain localisation for SZI at passive margins: "It is widely accepted that subduction...
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Fabio Crameri
- Aug 22, 2020
- 1 min
Lean back and watch!
A brand new Youtube video of two of the most involved and successful SZI influencers out there explains clearly how to make new...
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Fabio Crameri
- May 31, 2020
- 1 min
Rapid subduction initiation and magmatism driven by internal vertical forces?
Ben Maunder and his colleagues tell us about vertically forced SZI: "A continuous, in situ record of subduction zone initiation was...
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Fabio Crameri
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Online SZI team meeting
The SZI team consists of 14 international, early-career researchers. In other words, we often travel, we often move, we are rarely in one...
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Fabio Crameri
- Sep 3, 2019
- 1 min
Poster up at #ALWS2019
A sneak peak of the upcoming SZI database and its new insights into the onset of new subduction zones on Earth during the last 100 My has...
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Fabio Crameri
- Jul 26, 2019
- 1 min
SZI database officially announced at EGU 2019 in Vienna
The SZI database has been presented to the geoscientific community at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly 2019 in Vienna.
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