Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007geoji.171..977m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 171, Issue 1, pp. 977-985.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Dynamics: Gravity And Tectonics
Scientific paper
The thermomechanic evolution of the lithosphere-upper mantle system during Calabrian subduction is analysed using a 2-D finite element approach, in which the lithosphere is compositionally stratified into crust and mantle. Gravity and topography predictions are cross-checked with observed gravity and topography patterns of the Calabrian region. Modelling results indicate that the gravity pattern in the arc-trench region is shaped by the sinking of light material, belonging to both the overriding and subduction plates. The sinking of light crustal material, up to depths of the order of 100-150 km is the ultimate responsible for the peculiar gravity signature of subduction, characterized by a minimum of gravity anomaly located at the trench, bounded by two highs located on the overriding and subducting plates, with a variation in magnitude of the order of 200 mGal along a wavelength of 200 km, in agreement with the isostatically compensated component of gravity anomaly observed along a transect crossing the Calabrian Arc, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Seas. The striking agreement between the geodetic retrieved profiles and the modelled ones in the trench region confirms the crucial role of compositional stratification of the lithosphere in the subduction process and the correctness of the kinematic hypotheses considered in our modelling, that the present-day configuration of crust-mantle system below the Calabrian arc results from trench's retreat at a rate of about 3 cmyr-1, followed by gravitational sinking of the subducted slab in the last 5 Myr.
Barzaghi` Riccardo
Borghi Alessandra
Maria Marotta Anna
Spelta Elisa
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