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Professor Jeroen Van Hunen's Outputs (101)

Topographic fingerprint of deep mantle subduction (2020)
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Briaud, A., Agrusta, R., Faccenna, C., Funiciello, F., & Hunen, J. (2020). Topographic fingerprint of deep mantle subduction. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 125(1), Article e2019JB017962. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb017962

The dynamic topography links with the mantle structures at various temporal and spatial scales. However, it is still unclear how it relates to the dynamics of subducting lithosphere when plates reach the mantle transition zone and lower mantle. Seism... Read More about Topographic fingerprint of deep mantle subduction.

Along arc heterogeneity in local seismicity across the Lesser Antilles subduction zone from a dense ocean-bottom seismometer network (2019)
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Bie, L., Rietbrock, A., Hicks, S., Allen, R., Blundy, J., Clouard, V., Collier, J., Davidson, J., Garth, T., Goes, S., Harmon, N., Henstock, T., Van Hunen, J., Kendall, M., Krüger, F., Lynch, L., MacPherson, C., Robertson, R., Rychert, K., Tait, S., …Wilson, M. (2020). Along arc heterogeneity in local seismicity across the Lesser Antilles subduction zone from a dense ocean-bottom seismometer network. Seismological Research Letters, 9(1), 237-247. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190147

The Lesser Antilles arc is only one of two subduction zones where slow‐spreading Atlantic lithosphere is consumed. Slow‐spreading may result in the Atlantic lithosphere being more pervasively and heterogeneously hydrated than fast‐spreading Pacific l... Read More about Along arc heterogeneity in local seismicity across the Lesser Antilles subduction zone from a dense ocean-bottom seismometer network.

The Role of Crustal Buoyancy in the Generation and Emplacement of Magmatism During Continental Collision (2019)
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Schliffke, N., Hunen, J., Magni, V., & Allen, M. B. (2019). The Role of Crustal Buoyancy in the Generation and Emplacement of Magmatism During Continental Collision. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(11), 4693-4709. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gc008590

During continental collision, considerable amounts of buoyant continental crust subduct to depth and subsequently exhume. Whether various exhumation paths contribute to contrasting styles of magmatism across modern collision zones is unclear. Here we... Read More about The Role of Crustal Buoyancy in the Generation and Emplacement of Magmatism During Continental Collision.

Mapping geologic features onto subducted slabs (2019)
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Harmon, N., Rychert, C., Collier, J., Henstock, T., van Hunen, J., & Wilkinson, J. J. (2019). Mapping geologic features onto subducted slabs. Geophysical Journal International, 219(2), 725-733. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz290

Estimating the location of geologic and tectonic features on a subducting plate is important for interpreting their spatial relationships with other observables including seismicity, seismic velocity and attenuation anomalies, and the location of ore... Read More about Mapping geologic features onto subducted slabs.

Segmentation of rifts through structural inheritance: Creation of the Davis Strait (2019)
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Heron, P., Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Welford, J., Wilson, R., van Hunen, J., & Pysklywec, R. (2019). Segmentation of rifts through structural inheritance: Creation of the Davis Strait. Tectonics, 38(7), 2411-2430. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019tc005578

Mesozoic‐Cenozoic rifting between Greenland and North America created the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, while leaving preserved continental lithosphere in the Davis Strait which lies between them. Inherited crustal structures from a Palaeoproterozoic... Read More about Segmentation of rifts through structural inheritance: Creation of the Davis Strait.

Analogue modeling of plate rotation effects in transform margins and rift-transform intersections (2019)
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Farangitakis, G., Sokoutis, D., McCaffrey, K., Willingshofer, E., Kalnins, L., Phethean, J., van Hunen, J., & van Steen, V. (2019). Analogue modeling of plate rotation effects in transform margins and rift-transform intersections. Tectonics, 13(3), 823-841. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018tc005261

Transform margins are first‐order tectonic features that accommodate oceanic spreading. Uncertainties remain about their evolution, genetic relationship to oceanic spreading, and general structural character. When the relative motion of the plates ch... Read More about Analogue modeling of plate rotation effects in transform margins and rift-transform intersections.

Modeling Slab Temperature: a Reevaluation of the Thermal Parameter (2019)
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Maunder, B., van Hunen, J., Bouilhol, P., & Magni, V. (2019). Modeling Slab Temperature: a Reevaluation of the Thermal Parameter. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(2), 673-687. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc007641

We re‐evaluate the effects of slab age, speed and dip on slab temperature with numerical models. The Thermal Parameter Φ =t v sin θ, where t is age, v is speed, and θ is angle, is traditionally used as an indicator of slab temperature. However, we fi... Read More about Modeling Slab Temperature: a Reevaluation of the Thermal Parameter.

Deformation driven by deep and distant structures: Influence of a mantle lithosphere suture in the Ouachita orogeny, southeastern United States (2018)
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Heron, P., Pysklywec, R., Stephenson, R., & van Hunen, J. (2019). Deformation driven by deep and distant structures: Influence of a mantle lithosphere suture in the Ouachita orogeny, southeastern United States. Geology, 47(2), 147-150. https://doi.org/10.1130/g45690.1

Mantle lithosphere heterogeneities are well documented, are ubiquitous, and have often been thought to control lithosphere-scale deformation. Here, we explore the influence of deep scarring in crustal deformation in three dimensions by considering th... Read More about Deformation driven by deep and distant structures: Influence of a mantle lithosphere suture in the Ouachita orogeny, southeastern United States.

Lithosphere destabilization by melt weakening and crust-mantle interactions-implications for generation of granite-migmatite belts (2018)
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Kaislaniemi, L., van Hunen, J., & Bouilhol, P. (2018). Lithosphere destabilization by melt weakening and crust-mantle interactions-implications for generation of granite-migmatite belts. Tectonics, 37(9), 3102-3116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018tc005014

Orogenic crustal anatexis is a still poorly understood process due to the complexity of the thermal and geodynamical interaction between mantle and crustal processes during and after continental collision. Here, we present a novel conceptual model fo... Read More about Lithosphere destabilization by melt weakening and crust-mantle interactions-implications for generation of granite-migmatite belts.

Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth (2018)
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Agrusta, R., van Hunen, J., & Goes, S. (2018). Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth. Nature Communications, 9, Article 2708. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05194-5

In the present-day Earth, some subducting plates (slabs) are flattening above the upper–lower mantle boundary at ~670 km depth, whereas others go through, indicating a mode between layered and whole-mantle convection. Previous models predicted that i... Read More about Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth.

Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modeling using STyx (2018)
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Riel, N., Bouilhol, P., van Hunen, J., Cornet, J., Magni, V., Grigorova, V., & Velic, M. (2018). Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modeling using STyx. Geological Society Special Publications, 478, 65-87. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp478.6

The magmatic processes occurring in the lowermost arc crust play a major role in the evolution of mantle-wedge-derived melt. Geological evidence indicates that mantle-derived magmas and in-situ products of lower crust partial melting are reacting in... Read More about Interaction between mantle-derived magma and lower arc crust: quantitative reactive melt flow modeling using STyx.

Numerical models of the magmatic processes induced by slab breakoff (2017)
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Freeburn, R., Bouilhol, P., Maunder, B., Magni, V., & van Hunen, J. (2017). Numerical models of the magmatic processes induced by slab breakoff. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478, 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.008

After the onset of continental collision, magmatism often persists for tens of millions of years, albeit with a different composition, in reduced volumes, and with a more episodic nature and more widespread spatial distribution, compared to normal ar... Read More about Numerical models of the magmatic processes induced by slab breakoff.

The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland (2017)
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Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., van Hunen, J., Hobbs, R., & Wilson, R. (2018). The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland. Basin Research, 30(3), 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12257

Continental breakup between Greenland and North America produced the small oceanic basins of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, which are connected via the Davis Strait, a region mostly comprised of continental crust. This study contributes to the deba... Read More about The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland.

Continental underplating after slab break-off (2017)
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Magni, V., Allen, M., van Hunen, J., & Bouilhol, P. (2017). Continental underplating after slab break-off. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.017

We present three-dimensional numerical models to investigate the dynamics of continental collision, and in particular what happens to the subducted continental lithosphere after oceanic slab break-off. We find that in some scenarios the subducting co... Read More about Continental underplating after slab break-off.

Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs (2017)
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Clarke, A., Imber, J., Davies, R., van Hunen, J., Daniels, S., & Yielding, G. (2017). Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience, 23(3), 339-352. https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2016-052

Depleted gas reservoirs are potential sites for CO2 storage; therefore, it is important to evaluate their storage capacity. Historically, there have been difficulties in identifying the reservoir drive mechanism of gas reservoirs using traditional P/... Read More about Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs.

Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review (2017)
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Goes, S., Agrusta, R., van Hunen, J., & Garel, F. (2017). Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review. Geosphere, 13(3), 644-664. https://doi.org/10.1130/ges01476.1

As subducting plates reach the base of the upper mantle, some appear to flatten and stagnate, while others seemingly go through unimpeded. This variable resistance to slab sinking has been proposed to affect long-term thermal and chemical mantle circ... Read More about Subduction-transition zone interaction: A review.

Subducting-slab transition-zone interaction: Stagnation, penetration and mode switches (2017)
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Agrusta, R., Goes, S., & van Hunen, J. (2017). Subducting-slab transition-zone interaction: Stagnation, penetration and mode switches. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 464, 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.005

Seismic tomography shows that subducting slabs can either sink straight into the lower mantle, or lie down in the mantle transition zone. Moreover, some slabs seem to have changed mode from stagnation to penetration or vice versa. We investigate the... Read More about Subducting-slab transition-zone interaction: Stagnation, penetration and mode switches.

Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal (2016)
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Phethean, J. J., Kalnins, L. M., van Hunen, J., Biffi, P. G., Davies, R. J., & McCaffrey, K. J. (2016). Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(12), 5036-5055. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gc006624

Accurate reconstructions of the dispersal of supercontinent blocks are essential for testing continental breakup models. Here, we provide a new plate tectonic reconstruction of the opening of the Western Somali Basin during the breakup of East and We... Read More about Madagascar’s escape from Africa: A high-resolution plate reconstruction for the Western Somali Basin and implications for supercontinent dispersal.