Dehydration of subducting slow-spread oceanic lithosphere in the Lesser Antilles

During subduction water is transported into the mantle, but constraining its release remains challenging. Here, using seismic tomography of the Lesser Antilles arc, the authors track the multistage dehydration of the slab and its lateral variations associated with heterogeneous slab composition.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michele Paulatto, Mireille Laigle, Audrey Galve, Philippe Charvis, Martine Sapin, Gaye Bayrakci, Mikael Evain, Heidrun Kopp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15980