*Noritoshi Morikawa1, Kohei Kazahaya1, Masaaki Takahashi1, Akihiko Inamura1, Hiroshi A Takahashi1, Michiko Ohwada1, Masaya Yasuhara1,2, Tsutomu Sato1 (1.Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2.RISSHO University)
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[EE] Poster
S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-IT Science of the Earth's Interior & Tectonophysics
[S-IT26] [EE] Fluid-mediated processes and properties near convergent plate boundaries
Sat. May 20, 2017 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL7)
convener:Bjorn Mysen(Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Inst. Washington), Eiji Ohtani(Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Hikaru Iwamori(Geochemical Evolution Research Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Catherine McCammon(Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth)
Subduction of plates near convergent plate boundaries, causing earthquakes, metamorphism and volcanism, is a unique process that distinguishes the Earth from other terrestrial planets. Subduction also plays a major role in the long-term evolution of Earth, such as continental growth and global material cycling.
Volatiles such as water and carbon dioxide in subduction zone environments are key to understanding these processes. Release of volatiles from subducting slabs reactions causes changes in bulk composition, volume, and elastic properties of the residual devolatilized rocks as well as changes the rocks through which released fluids migrate. Those properties, together with the intergranular pore fluid, govern the physical-chemical structure (seismic velocities, density, shear strength, and compressibility) and the dynamics (subduction motion, mantle flow, fluid migration, and melting). For example, fluid interconnectivity controls the extent to which the fluid fluxes melting in and above subducting slabs, as well as viscosity structure in the mantle wedge. Fluid transport also causes changes in major element composition, phase relations, and trace and isotopic signatures, of slab materials and of the melting regions, affecting, therefore, physical properties and chemistry of arc magmas, and ultimately the continental crust. The devolatilized rocks also undergo significant modification in physical and chemical properties, and cycle back into the deep mantle, which may contribute to a global mantle structure and dynamics. Thus, these fluid-mediated changes cause a huge impact on a wide range of phenomena.
We welcome approaches including observations, experiments and theory to aid our understanding of fluid-mediated processes in and near subduction zones, bringing together contributions from material science, petrology, geophysics, tectonics, geodynamics, and Earth system science, to examine the causes and consequences of subduction.
*Takuo Shibutani1, Kazuro Hirahara1 (1.Kyoto University)
*Miki Shigeno1, Yasushi Mori1, Tatsuhiko Kawamoto2, Tadao Nishiyama3 (1.Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, 2.Kyoto University, 3.Kumamoto University)
Ryota Abe1, Yuki Shibazaki2, Shin Ozawa1, Itaru Ohira1, Hiromu Tobe1, *Akio Suzuki1 (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, 2.Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University)
*Yuto Sato1, Kazuhito Ozawa1 (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
*Hatsuki Yamauchi1, Yasuko Takei1 (1.Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)