Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction
- Benedikt Braszus,
- Saskia Goes,
- Rob Allen,
- Andreas Rietbrock,
- Jenny Collier,
- Nick Harmon,
- Tim Henstock,
- Stephen Hicks,
- Catherine A. Rychert,
- Ben Maunder,
- Jeroen van Hunen,
- Lidong Bie,
- Jon Blundy,
- George Cooper,
- Richard Davy,
- J. Michael Kendall,
- Colin Macpherson,
- Jamie Wilkinson,
- Marjorie Wilson
Affiliations
- Benedikt Braszus
- Geophysical Institute (GPI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Saskia Goes
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- Rob Allen
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- Andreas Rietbrock
- Geophysical Institute (GPI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Jenny Collier
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- Nick Harmon
- National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
- Tim Henstock
- National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
- Stephen Hicks
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- Catherine A. Rychert
- National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
- Ben Maunder
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- Jeroen van Hunen
- Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University
- Lidong Bie
- Geophysical Institute (GPI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Jon Blundy
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
- George Cooper
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
- Richard Davy
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- J. Michael Kendall
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
- Colin Macpherson
- Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University
- Jamie Wilkinson
- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
- Marjorie Wilson
- School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24413-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
Seismic imaging of subducted plates offers a way to improve plate tectonic reconstructions. Here, Braszus et al. use new ocean-bottom seismometer data from the Lesser Antilles to locate subducted spreading centres and faults thus providing a new understanding of the evolution of the Caribbean plate.
