Slab dehydration and earthquake distribution beneath southwestern and central Japan based on three‐dimensional thermal modeling - Ji, Yingfeng; Yoshioka, Shoichi (Geophysical research letters, 2017)
Keywords: 3‐D; Amphibolites; Cellular convection; Convection; Dehydration; Distribution; Earthquakes; Free convection; geodynamics; geophysics; Japan; Low temperature; Mathematical models; Moisture content; Phase transitions; Plate tectonics; Plates (tectonics); Seismic activity; Seismology; slab; Slabs; Subduction; Subduction (geology); Tectonics; Temperature; Temperature gradients; thermal; Thermal analysis; Thermal convection; Thermal models; Three dimensional models; Tremors; Water content; Philippine Sea; Japan; ISEW, Philippine Sea; INW, Japan, Shikoku; Japan, Honshu, Mie Prefect., Tokai District; Philippine Sea Plate