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Zhao, D., A. Hasegawa, and H. Kanamori, Deep structure of Japan subduction zone as derived from local, regional, and teleseismic events, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22,313-22,329, 1994. [PDF]

Spence, W., Slab pull and the seismotectonics of subducting lithosphere, Rev. Geophys., 25, 55-69, 1987. [PDF]

Burbach, G.V., and C. Frohlich, Intermediate and deep seismicity and lateral structure of subducted lithosphere in the Circum-Pacific region, Rev. Geophys., 24, 833-874, 1986. [PDF]

Dragert, H., K. Wang, and T.S. James, A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface. Science, 292, 1525-1528, 2001. [PDF] [Perspective]

Obara, K., Nonvolcanic deep tremor associated with subduction in Southwest Japan. Science, 296, 1679-1681, 2002. [PDF] [Perspective]

Rogers, G., and H. Dragert, Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: The chatter of silent slip, Science, 300, 1941-1943, 2003. [PDF] [Perspective] [Enhanced]

Wallace, T.C., Introduction to the special issue on the great Bolivian earthquake of 1994, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2231, 1995. [PDF]

Kirby, S.H., E.A. Okal, and E.R. Engdahl, The 9 June 94 Bolivian deep earthquake - an exceptional event in an extraordinary subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2233-2236, 1995. [PDF]

Silver, P.G., S.L. Beck, T.C. Wallace, C. Meade, S.C. Myers, D.E. James, and R. Kuehnel, Rupture characteristics of the deep Bolivian earthquake of 9 June 1994 and the mechanism of deep-focus earthquakes, Science, 268, 69-73, 1995. [PDF]

Tibi, R., D.A. Wiens, and H. Inoue, Remote triggering of deep earthquakes in the 2002 Tonga sequences, Nature, 424, 921-925, 2003. [PDF - 444Kb] [News & Views]

Widiyantoro, S., B.L.N. Kennett, and R.D. van der Hilst, Seismic tomography with P and S data reveals lateral variations in the rigidity of deep slabs, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 173, 91-100, 1999. [PDF]

Zhao, D.P., Y.B. Xu, D.A. Wiens, L. Dorman, J. Hildebrand, and S. Webb, Depth extent of the Lau back-arc spreading center and its relation to subduction processes, Science, 278, 254-257, 1997. [PDF]

Roth, E.G., D.A. Wiens, and D.P. Zhao, An empirical relationship between seismic attenuation and velocity anomalies in the upper mantle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 601-604, 2000. [PDF]

Vidale, J.E., and H.M. Benz, Upper-mantle seismic discontinuities and the thermal structure of subduction zones, Nature, 356, 678-683, 1992. [PDF]

Bina, C.R., Patterns of deep seismicity reflect buoyancy stresses due to phase transitions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 3301-3304, 1997. [PDF]

Schmidt, M.W., and S. Poli, Experimentally based water budgets for dehydrating slabs and consequences for arc magma generation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 163, 361-379, 1998. [PDF]

Bostock, M.G., Hyndman, R.D. & Peacock, S.M., 2002. An inverted continental Moho and serpentinization of the forearc mantle. Nature, 417, 536-538. [PDF] [News & Views]

Abers, G.A., Plank, T. & Hacker, B.R., 2003. The wet Nicaraguan slab. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, art. no.-1098. [PDF]

Ranero, C.R., J.P. Morgan, K. McIntosh, and C. Reichert, Bending-related faulting and mantle serpentinization at the Middle America trench, Nature, 425, pp 367-373, 2003. [PDF]

Wiens, D.A., and G.P. Smith, Seismological constraints on structure and flow patterns within the mantle wedge, The Subduction Factory, AGU Monograph, in press, 2003. [PDF]

Russo, R.M., and P.G. Silver, Trench-parallel flow beneath the Nazca plate from seismic anisotropy, Science, 263, pp 1105-1111, 1994. [PDF]

Fischer, K.M., Fouch, M.J., Wiens, D.A. & Boettcher, M.S., Anisotropy and flow in Pacific subduction zone back-arcs. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 151, pp 463-475, 1998. [PDF]

Smith, G.P., D.A. Wiens, K.M. Fischer, L.M. Dorman, S.C. Webb, and J.A. Hildebrand, A complex pattern of mantle flow in the Lau backarc, Science, 292, pp 713-716, 2001. [PDF]

Turner, S., and C. Hawkesworth, Constraints on flux rates and mantle dynamics beneath island arcs from Tonga-Kermadec lava geochemistry, Nature, 389, pp 568-573, 1997. [PDF]

Turner, S., P. Evans, and C. Hawkesworth, Ultrafast source-to-surface movement of melt at island arcs from 226Ra-230Th systematics, Science, 292, pp 1363-1366, 2001. [PDF]

Hall, P.S., and C. Kincaid, Diapiric flow at subduction zones: A recipe for rapid transport, Science, v. 292, 2472-2475, 2001. [PDF]

King, S.D., Subduction zones: Observations and geodynamical models, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 127, pp 9-24, 2001. [PDF]

Mueller, S., and R.J. Phillips, On the initiation of subduction, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 651-665, 1991.  [PDF] 

 

Hall, C.E., M. Gurnis, M. Sdrolias, L.L. Lavier, and R.D. Muller, Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence across fracture zones, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 212, 15-30, 2003.  [PDF]