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Subduction zone initiation (SZI) is a critical stage of the Wilson cycle. While our understanding of the mechanisms, and the sequence of...

Brandon Shuck and his colleagues suggest that SZI is not always either horizontally driven or vertically driven, but can indeed be both:...

Antoine Auzemery and colleagues study under what conditions SZI is more likely to occur at passive margins than at mid-ocean ridges: We...

Marzieh Baes and colleagues provide an insightful review of plume-induced subduction: Subduction zone initiation by a hot and buoyant...

Serge Lallemand and Diane Arcay provide an exhaustive, careful and insightful overview of the many Cenozoic subduction initiation sites...

Xin Zhou and Ikuko Wada provide us with another indication about the apparent dominance of horizontally-forced SZI over vertically-forced...

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...

Brandon Shuck and his colleagues provide us with an updated view on one of the key ongoing potential SZI events: Geoscientists have...

Lulu Zhang and colleagues provide us with a view on subduction zone initiation where, for once, the lighter of two plates is going down:...

Are you working on a project regarding subduction zone initiation? Do you like to make your research openly accessible? Are you a fan of...

Suzanna van de Lagemaat and her colleagues provide us with an overview and new perspective on the South Sandwich SZI event: We present an...

Daniel Coulthard and his colleagues tell us about how the magma source might evolve following SZI: The origin of crust created along the...

"Subduction is the primary driver of plate tectonics and has provided a critical exchange of life-supporting elements between the...

Antoine Auzemery and his colleagues tell us about strain localisation for SZI at passive margins: "It is widely accepted that subduction...

A brand new Youtube video of two of the most involved and successful SZI influencers out there explains clearly how to make new...

Ben Maunder and his colleagues tell us about vertically forced SZI: "A continuous, in situ record of subduction zone initiation was...

The SZI team consists of 14 international, early-career researchers. In other words, we often travel, we often move, we are rarely in one...

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...

The SZI database has been presented to the geoscientific community at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly 2019 in Vienna.