On the decompression melting structure at volcanic arcs and back-arc spreading centers

Details On the decompression melting structure at volcanic arcs and back-arc spreading centers On the decompression melting structure at volcanic arcs and back-arc spreading centers

Aug 2002

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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 15, pp. 17-1, CiteID 1727, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015390

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Tectonophysics: Dynamics Of Lithosphere And Mantle-General, Tectonophysics: Dynamics, Seismotectonics, Volcanology: Physics And Chemistry Of Magma Bodies, Information Related To Geographic Region: Pacific Ocean, Mathematical Geophysics: Numerical Solutions

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Mantle dynamics can strongly affect melting processes beneath spreading centers and volcanic arcs. A 2-D numerical model of the Tonga subduction zone, with the slab viscously coupled to the mantle beneath the brittle-ductile transition but faulted above, shows that induced corner flow may cause asymmetric melting at the Lau back-arc spreading center, 400 km away. The down-going slab also entrains the high-viscosity base of the overlying lithosphere, drawing hot, low-viscosity asthenosphere upwards into the gap, triggering decompression melting in the wedge. Because the slab is decoupled from the brittle overlying plate, a cold upper corner develops, inhibiting melting where the slab is shallow. The cold corner is consistent with seismic attenuation and heat flow at arcs. Decompression melting may be a substantial fraction of magma production at some arcs, but less at others. Possibly more important, the shallow decompression melting structure may govern the pathways of melt extraction beneath volcanic arcs.

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