Exploring the Missing Pieces: Recovering geologic records of SZI
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Subduction zone initiation (SZI) is a critical stage of the Wilson cycle. While our understanding of the mechanisms, and the sequence of...
Fabio Crameri
Feb 11, 20221 min read
A novel SZI forcing scenario
Brandon Shuck and his colleagues suggest that SZI is not always either horizontally driven or vertically driven, but can indeed be both:...
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Fabio Crameri
Dec 2, 20211 min read
SZI: mid-ocean ridges vs. passive margins
Antoine Auzemery and colleagues study under what conditions SZI is more likely to occur at passive margins than at mid-ocean ridges: We...
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Fabio Crameri
Nov 16, 20211 min read
Mantle-plume induced subduction
Marzieh Baes and colleagues provide an insightful review of plume-induced subduction: Subduction zone initiation by a hot and buoyant...
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Fabio Crameri
Sep 20, 20212 min read
Analysis of 70 subduction initiation sites
Serge Lallemand and Diane Arcay provide an exhaustive, careful and insightful overview of the many Cenozoic subduction initiation sites...
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Fabio Crameri
Aug 23, 20211 min read
Horizontally-forced SZI creates most metamorphic soles
Xin Zhou and Ikuko Wada provide us with another indication about the apparent dominance of horizontally-forced SZI over vertically-forced...
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Fabio Crameri
Jul 11, 20211 min read
The SZI event to start ocean-plate tectonics
Jinlong Yao and colleagues provide us with new constraints on an SZI event that might mark the onset of deep subduction on the Earth: We...
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Fabio Crameri
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Puysegur: An SZI event?
Brandon Shuck and his colleagues provide us with an updated view on one of the key ongoing potential SZI events: Geoscientists have...
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Fabio Crameri
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Anomalous SZI
Lulu Zhang and colleagues provide us with a view on subduction zone initiation where, for once, the lighter of two plates is going down:...
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Fabio Crameri
Mar 11, 20211 min read
📚 SZI Special Collection
Are you working on a project regarding subduction zone initiation? Do you like to make your research openly accessible? Are you a fan of...
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Fabio Crameri
Feb 17, 20211 min read
SZI in the Scotia Sea region: When and why?
Suzanna van de Lagemaat and her colleagues provide us with an overview and new perspective on the South Sandwich SZI event: We present an...
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Fabio Crameri
Jan 8, 20211 min read
Magma source evolution following SZI
Daniel Coulthard and his colleagues tell us about how the magma source might evolve following SZI: The origin of crust created along the...
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Fabio Crameri
Dec 10, 20201 min read
✨ Subduction ✨
"Subduction is the primary driver of plate tectonics and has provided a critical exchange of life-supporting elements between the...
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Fabio Crameri
Oct 10, 20201 min read
Strain localisation mechanisms for SZI
Antoine Auzemery and his colleagues tell us about strain localisation for SZI at passive margins: "It is widely accepted that subduction...
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Fabio Crameri
Aug 22, 20201 min read
Lean back and watch!
A brand new Youtube video of two of the most involved and successful SZI influencers out there explains clearly how to make new...
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Fabio Crameri
May 31, 20201 min read
Rapid subduction initiation and magmatism driven by internal vertical forces?
Ben Maunder and his colleagues tell us about vertically forced SZI: "A continuous, in situ record of subduction zone initiation was...
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Fabio Crameri
Apr 6, 20201 min read
Online SZI team meeting
The SZI team consists of 14 international, early-career researchers. In other words, we often travel, we often move, we are rarely in one...
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Fabio Crameri
Sep 3, 20191 min read
Poster up at #ALWS2019
A sneak peak of the upcoming SZI database and its new insights into the onset of new subduction zones on Earth during the last 100 My has...
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Fabio Crameri
Jul 26, 20191 min read
SZI database officially announced at EGU 2019 in Vienna
The SZI database has been presented to the geoscientific community at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly 2019 in Vienna.
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