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Published on: March 21, 2016
3-D data of thermal regime, water content, and slab dehydration in Alaska
Rui Qu1,2, Yingfeng Ji1,2, Weiling Zhu1,2,3
1State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System and Resources Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Abstract:
The data include the 3-D temperature field (degrees Celsius), water content (wt%), dehydration rate (wt%/km), and subduction velocity field (cm/yr) of the subducting plate, as well as the coastline and volcano distribution in Alaska. The data of the model region have dimensions of 800 × 1600 × 400 km (length × width × depth). The geometry of the subducted plate is well constrained by Slab2.0, and the plate ages are provided by EarthByte. The subduction velocities inside a prescribed 3-D constrained volume of the oceanic lithosphere are given based on the kinematic plate subduction modeling method and the MORVEL plate motion data. The observation of surface heat flow and Curie point depths are used to constrain the model thermal regime. The geophysical calculation is ensured after the subduction thermal regime reaches a steady state. Data are deposited in the TPDC repository, which has granted a persistent identifier https://data.tpdc.ac.cn/en/disallow/8b266d22-fea7-4259-9a5f-8ac0bd9e7869/. Data include (1) paraview_eq_USGS.vtk (earthquake catalog by IRIS, 2000-2010, Trabant et al., 2012), (2) paraview_slab.vtk (3-D thermal regime, slab water content and slab dehydration), (3) paraview_volcano.vtk (global volcanoes at NCEI, Siebert et al., 2010), and (4) paraview_map.vtk (coastline, GMT).
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