Subduction Zone Global Suites

Authors: Cian Wilson, Kidus Teshome, Cameron Seebeck

In the following section we present a full global suite of subduction zone thermal models as discussed in van Keken & Wilson, PEPS, 2023 (III). This suite, originally proposed by Syracuse et al., PEPI, 2010, represents a global compilation of two-dimensional subduction zone transects at the locations seen in Figure 4.1.1.

Figure 4.1.1 Locations of global suite of subduction zones, after Syracuse et al., PEPI, 2010.

We present two versions of the global suite, the first steady state and the second time-dependent. Both use a non-linear temperature and strain-rate dependent dislocation creep rheology.