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Gravitationally Unstable Hydrous Melts at the Base of the Upper Mantle 重力不稳定的水在上地幔底部融化

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030737

Hongzhan Fei, Juan Chen, Fei Wang, Baohua Zhang, Qunke Xia, Tomoo Katsura

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Link Between the Impact Mechanisms of Granular Flow-Dam Interaction and the Generated Seismic Signal: Insights From Laboratory Experiments 颗粒流-坝相互作用的影响机制与产生的地震信号之间的联系：来自实验室实验的见解

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB029946

Xinzhi Zhou, Yifei Cui, Jun Fang, Hui Tang, Zhen Zhang, Shuofan Wang

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Freezing of Crystal Preferred Orientation in the Mantle Wedge Corner and Shear Wave Splitting 地幔楔角晶体择优取向冻结与横波分裂

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030062

Lindsey M. Kenyon, Ikuko Wada

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Controls of Grain Breakage on Shear Band Morphology and Porosity Evolution in Fault Gouges 晶粒破碎对断层沟剪切带形态和孔隙率演变的控制作用

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB029255

Qiang Li, Jianye Chen, Chongyuan Zhang, Liang Yuan, Derek Elsworth, Quan Gan, Fengshou Zhang

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Water Dissolution Driving High Mobility of Diopside-H2O Supercritical Fluid 水溶解驱动透辉- h2o超临界流体的高迁移率

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030956

Bowen Chen, Jian Song, Yu Zhang, Wenzhong Wang, Yajie Zhao, Zhongqing Wu, Xiaoping Wu

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Comparison of Paleoearthquake Elapsed-Times and Mean Interevent-Times for a Global Data Set of Active Faults: Implications for Future Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard 全球活动断层数据集的古地震间隔时间和平均间隔时间的比较：对未来地震和地震危险性的启示

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030036

Vasiliki Mouslopoulou, Andrew Nicol, Andrew Howell, Jonathan D. Griffin

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Magnetic Telechemistry of the Reykjanes Ridge 雷克雅尼斯海脊的磁遥化学

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030622

Daniel Thorhallsson, Fernando Martinez, Richard Hey, Ármann Höskuldsson

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A Deep Dive Into a Ridge-Transform Fault Intersection: Volcano-Tectonic Relationships in an Enhanced Cold-Edge Effect at the Romanche Fracture Zone 深探脊-转换断层交会：罗曼切断裂带冷缘效应增强中的火山-构造关系

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030688

Léa Grenet, Marcia Maia, Cédric Hamelin, Anne Briais, Hervé Guillou, Vincent Scao, Daniele Brunelli

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Normal Fault Interactions in Seismic Cycles and the Impact of Fault Network Geometry 地震旋回中的正断层相互作用和断层网几何形状的影响

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030382

Constanza Rodriguez Piceda, Zoë K. Mildon, Martijn van den Ende, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Billy J. Andrews

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Evidence for Lithospheric Mantle Uniformity Beneath Cratons 克拉通下岩石圈地幔均匀性的证据

IF 3.9 2区地球科学

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1029/2024JB029649

Federico D. Munch, Paolo A. Sossi, Amir Khan

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