Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Transient stripping of subducting slabs controls periodic forearc uplift

  • Armel Menant,
  • Samuel Angiboust,
  • Taras Gerya,
  • Robin Lacassin,
  • Martine Simoes,
  • Raphael Grandin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15580-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Topography at active forearc margins is controlled by numerous competing tectonic and erosional processes acting at different timescales, yet separating their respective contribution remains a challenge. Here, the authors evidence Myr-scale, uplift-then-subsidence cycles controlled by transient accretion at the base of the forearc domain.