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Scientific paper
Jun 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.1181f&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 12, p. 1181-1184
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Earth Mantle, Earthquakes, Olivine, Phase Transformations, Rock Mechanics, Seismic Waves, Seismology, Slabs, Subduction (Geology), Depth Measurement, Japan, Temperature Measurement, Temperature Profiles
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The relation between variation of seismic activity with depth and temperature structure in the subducting slabs in five subduction zones (Kuril, NE-Japan, Izu-Bonin, Mariana, and Tonga) is investigated. When the temperature of the core of the slab at depths of 300 to approximately 350 km is higher than the kinetic cut-off temperature of the olivine-spinel phase transformation, there is no seismicity maximum in the slab below that depth range. When the temperature of the core of the slab at 300 to approximately 350 km depths is lower than the kinetic cut-off temperature, there is a depth range of relatively high seismic activity in the slabs. Moreover, estimated temperature in the depth range of relatively high seismicity is near the kinetic cut-off temperature. It is inferred that the phase transformation of meta-stable olivine triggers deep earthquakes and causes high seismic activity below the depths of 300 to approximately 350 km in relatively low temperature slabs, when the phase transformation is the cause of deep earthquakes. In relatively high temperature slabs, however, it is considered that the phase transformation occurs in nearly equilibrium conditions and meta-stable olivine does not exist. Other mechanisms in addition to the phase transformation are required to explain observed deep seismic especially in relatively high temperature slabs.
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