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Subduction Zone Tomography

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Multiscale Seismic Tomography

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In this chapter, we review recent seismic tomography studies of subduction zones and new insights into arc magmatism, seismotectonics and subduction dynamics. Seismic velocity and attenuation tomography clearly reveals subducting slabs as high-velocity and low-attenuation zones, where intermediate-depth and deep earthquakes occur. In the crust and upper-mantle wedge, low-velocity (low-V) and high-attenuation (low-Q) anomalies are revealed beneath arc and back-arc volcanoes, and they extend to a deeper portion of the mantle wedge, indicating that the low-V and low-Q anomalies reflect source zones of arc magmatism and volcanism which are caused by corner flow in the mantle wedge and fluids from slab dehydration. P-wave anisotropy tomography and shear-wave splitting measurements also provide important constraints on mantle flows and dynamics in subduction zones.

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Zhao, D. (2015). Subduction Zone Tomography. In: Multiscale Seismic Tomography. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55360-1_3

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