0 an area where two continental plates (= large layers of rock that form the earth's surface) meet and where there are often earthquakes
Deciphering mantle and crustal signatures in subduction zone magmatism.
These authors relate the transition from calc-alkaline to tholeiitic volcanism to a change in the dip of the subduction zone.
Subduction was not active in the area and hence subduction zone enrichment is not referred to in the following description.
Models of quartz overgrowth and vein formation: deformation and episodic fluid flow in an ancient subduction zone.
The long second section (280 pages) contains the real meat, consisting of four long essays on strike-slip faults, normal faults, reverse faults (and folds) and subduction zone megathrusts.
The buoyant ascent of the detached upper crustal slice along the subduction zone does not, however, lead to a removal of the mantle wedge above the descending slab.
This means that (for example) the beginner may not appreciate the difference in scale between a diagram for folded strata and one showing a whole subduction zone.
The formation of mantle phlogopite in subduction zone hybridization.
