How do subduction zones initiate, develop and end: Imaging the Reversal of Subduction in the Solomon Islands (NERC grant NE/M00788X/1)

In this urgency proposal we will deploy seismometers for 1 year to record aftershocks from sequence of 4 major earthquakes with magnitudes between 7.1-7.6. These recordings and other recordings of earthquakes from around the globe will allow us to delineate with high accuracy the plate interfaces of the new and old subducting slabs and image the slab structures at depth. The structure of the old and new subduction zones will illuminate the processes occurring at depth which are shifting the force balance in the region to reverse the sense of subduction. The proposed experiment will be enhanced by concurrent studies scheduled to be deployed in Fall of 2014, which includes a multimillion pound ocean bottom seismic deployment by colleagues in Japan. The combined array will allow us to image the Pacific plate which is stalling the subduction, allowing us to investigate what conditions are necessary for a plate to halt the descent of the slab into the mantle. Thus we will be able to understand how subduction stops and starts. Data available online at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Management Centre (DMC).

Date (Creation): 2018-05-01

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607317

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Southampton	Dr Nicholas Harmon	not available	Point of contact
University of Southampton	Dr Nicholas Harmon	not available	Principal investigator

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Plate tectonics
Earth mantle
Volcanic activity
Tectonics
NGDC Deposited Data
Geohazards
Earth core

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NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Other constraints: Data available online at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Management Centre (DMC).

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Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2014-10-01

End date: 2015-12-31

Supplemental Information: Metadata not supplied by PI.

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Distribution format

Name	Version
SEED format

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.iris-database.org/iris/app/home/index

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.026

Hierarchy level: Non geographic dataset

Other: non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services