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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- Dec 2, 2021
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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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- Nov 16, 2021
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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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- Sep 20, 2021
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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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- Aug 23, 2021
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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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- Jul 11, 2021
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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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- Jun 21, 2021
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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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- Jun 14, 2021
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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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- Mar 11, 2021
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📚 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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- Feb 17, 2021
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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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- Jan 8, 2021
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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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- Dec 10, 2020
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✨ 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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- Oct 10, 2020
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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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- Aug 22, 2020
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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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- May 31, 2020
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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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- Apr 6, 2020
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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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- Sep 3, 2019
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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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- Jul 26, 2019
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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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