Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Molybdenum isotopes unmask slab dehydration and melting beneath the Mariana arc

  • Hong-Yan Li,
  • Rui-Peng Zhao,
  • Jie Li,
  • Yoshihiko Tamura,
  • Christopher Spencer,
  • Robert J. Stern,
  • Jeffrey G. Ryan,
  • Yi-Gang Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26322-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A deep neural network is developed to automatically extract ground deformation from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar time series. Applied to data over the North Anatolian Fault, the method can detect 2 mm deformation transients and reveals a slow earthquake twice as extensive as previously recognized.