Subduction Zone Geodynamics

Chapter 1 A Review of the Role of Subduction Dynamics for Regional and Global Plate Motions

Chapter 2 Subduction with Variations in Slab Buoyancy: Models and Application to the Banda and Apennine Systems

Chapter 3 Continental Collision and the STEP-wise Evolution of Convergent Plate Boundaries: From Structure to Dynamics

Chapter 4 Seismic Anisotropy of Subduction Zone Minerals–Contribution of Hydrous Phases

Chapter 5 Local Earthquake Tomography in the Southern Tyrrhenian Region of Italy: Geophysical and Petrological Inferences on the Subducting Lithosphere

Chapter 6 Effect of Subducting Seafloor Topography on the Rupture Characteristics of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes

Chapter 7 Great Earthquakes in Slow-Subduction, Low-Taper Margins

Chapter 8 Convergent Margin Structure in High-Quality Geophysical Images and Current Kinematic and Dynamic Models

Chapter 9 Imaging Interseismic Locking at the Nankai Subduction Zone, Southwest Japan

Chapter 10 Exhumation Processes in Oceanic and Continental Subduction Contexts: A Review

Chapter 11 Evolution of Subductions Indicated by Mélanges in Taiwan

Chapter 12 Subduction of an Active Spreading Ridge Beneath Southern South America: A Review of the Cenozoic Geological Records from the Andean Foreland, Central Patagonia (46–47°S)

Chapter 13 Configuration of the Colombian Caribbean Margin: Constraints from 2D Seismic Reflection data and Potential Fields Interpretation