Ocean Subduction Dynamics in the Alps
International audience The Alps preserve abundant oceanic blueschists and eclogites that exemplify the selective preservation of fragments of relatively short-lived, small, slow-spreading North Atlantic–type ocean basins whose subducting slabs reach down to the Mantle Transition Zone at most. Wherea...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-03886780v1 2023-11-05T03:43:54+01:00 Ocean Subduction Dynamics in the Alps Agard, Philippe Handy, Mark Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Freie Universität Berlin 2021-02-01 https://hal.science/hal-03886780 https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.17.1.9 en eng HAL CCSD GeoScienceWorld info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.2138/gselements.17.1.9 hal-03886780 https://hal.science/hal-03886780 doi:10.2138/gselements.17.1.9 ISSN: 1811-5209 EISSN: 1811-5217 Elements https://hal.science/hal-03886780 Elements, 2021, 17 (1), pp.9-16. ⟨10.2138/gselements.17.1.9⟩ [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.17.1.9 2023-10-07T22:49:51Z International audience The Alps preserve abundant oceanic blueschists and eclogites that exemplify the selective preservation of fragments of relatively short-lived, small, slow-spreading North Atlantic–type ocean basins whose subducting slabs reach down to the Mantle Transition Zone at most. Whereas no subducted fragments were returned during the first half of the subduction history, those exhumed afterwards experienced conditions typical of mature subduction zones worldwide. Sedimentary-dominated units were under-plated intermittently, mostly at ~30–40 km depth. Some mafic–ultramafic-dominated units formed close to the continent were subducted to ~80 km and offscraped from the slab only a few million years before continental subduction. Spatiotemporal contrasts in burial and preservation of the fragments reveal how along-strike segmentation of the continental margin affects ocean subduction dynamics. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Elements 17 1 9 16 |
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International audience The Alps preserve abundant oceanic blueschists and eclogites that exemplify the selective preservation of fragments of relatively short-lived, small, slow-spreading North Atlantic–type ocean basins whose subducting slabs reach down to the Mantle Transition Zone at most. Whereas no subducted fragments were returned during the first half of the subduction history, those exhumed afterwards experienced conditions typical of mature subduction zones worldwide. Sedimentary-dominated units were under-plated intermittently, mostly at ~30–40 km depth. Some mafic–ultramafic-dominated units formed close to the continent were subducted to ~80 km and offscraped from the slab only a few million years before continental subduction. Spatiotemporal contrasts in burial and preservation of the fragments reveal how along-strike segmentation of the continental margin affects ocean subduction dynamics. |
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Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Freie Universität Berlin |
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Ocean Subduction Dynamics in the Alps |
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