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'Subduction zones are also the source of many natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. 'The sinking of oceanic plates into the Earth's mantle at subduction zones is what causes the Earth's tectonic plates to move and is one of the most important processes taking place in our planet,' Zhu said. At regions called subduction zones, one plate descends under another into the mantle. These plates move across and into the mantle very slowly - about as fast as fingernails grow. Over short time periods, the mantle can be considered solid rock, but on the geological time scale of millions of years, the mantle flows like a viscous fluid.Д®arth's crust is broken into pieces called tectonic plates. Robert Stern, professor of geosciences, are the study's co-authors.Д«etween the relatively thin layer of the Earth's crust and its inner core lies the thickest part of the planet, the mantle. Jidong Yang, who earned his PhD in geosciences from UT Dallas in May, and Dr. Hejun Zhu, corresponding author of the study and assistant professor of geosciences in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. 'This is the first comprehensive seismic study to directly image 3D mantle flow fields in actual subduction environments using advanced FWI technology,' said Dr.

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In a study published April 29 in Nature Communications, the UT Dallas research team described how it created images of mantle flows in a subduction region under Central America and the Caribbean Sea using a computationally intensive technique called a full waveform inversion (FWI).

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