Sediments and Subduction Interface Mechanics: from micro-scale creep to global plate tectonics

Project Information

S-SIM

Grant agreement ID: 947659

DOI 10.3030/947659

EC signature date 22 October 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 31 October 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 575 000,00

EU contribution € 1 575 000,00

Coordinated by

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
Switzerland

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

Weakening Mechanisms in a Basalt-Hosted Subduction Megathrust Fault Segment, Southern Alaska

Author(s): Braden, Zoe; Behr, Whitney M.
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126 (9), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2169-9356
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000507989

Tracking Deep Sediment Underplating in a Fossil Subduction Margin: Implications for Interface Rheology and Mass and Volatile Recycling

Author(s): C. M. Tewksbury-Christle,W. M. Behr, M. A. Helper
Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021, ISSN 1525-2027
Publisher: Geochemical Society
DOI: 10.1029/2020gc009463

What's down there? The structures, materials and environment of deep-seated slow slip and tremor.

Author(s): Behr, Whitney M.; Bürgmann, Roland
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 379 (2193), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0218

The Role of Sediment Accretion and Buoyancy on Subduction Dynamics and Geometry

Author(s): S. Brizzi, T. W. Becker, C. Faccenna, W. Behr, I. van Zelst, L. Dal Zilio, Y. van Dinther
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2021gl096266

Transient Slow Slip Characteristics of Frictional-Viscous Subduction Megathrust Shear Zones

Author(s): Whitney M. Behr, Taras V. Gerya, Claudio Cannizzaro, Robert Blass
Published in: AGU Advances, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) e2021AV000416, ISSN 2576-604X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2021av000416

The effects of plate interface rheology on subduction kinematics and dynamics

Author(s): Whitney M Behr, Adam F Holt, Thorsten W Becker, Claudio Faccenna
Published in: Geophysical Journal International, 2022, Page(s) 796-812, ISSN 1365-246X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac075

Diffusion creep of sodic amphibole-bearing blueschist limited by microboudinage

Author(s): Leif Tokle, Lonnie Hufford, Whitney Behr, Luiz Morales, Claudio Madonna
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue I28, 2023, Page(s) e2023JB026848, ISSN 2169-9356
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023jb026848

Constraints From Exhumed Rocks on the Seismic Signature of the Deep Subduction Interface

Author(s): Whitney Behr; Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (18), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2021gl093831