Auxiliary material for
Deep recycling of oceanic asthenosphere material during subduction
Lijun Liu, Quan Zhou
Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geophysical Research Letters, 2015
Introduction
This file contains a supplementary text, one table, and six additional figures in
support of the main text. The data for making these figures are numerical simulation
results.
1.1 Supplementary text for model setup
1.2 Table 1: Model parameters
1.3 fs01.pdf: Model setup and initial condition
1.4 fs02.pdf: Depth- and temperature-dependence of viscosity
1.5 fs03.pdf: Subduction model with a two-layer asthenosphere at three snapshots.
1.6 fs04.pdf: Snapshots of asthenosphere entrainment after 50 million years of
subduction for a young slab.
1.7 fs05.pdf: Subduction model with a weak slab.
1.8 fs06.pdf: Translation of asthenosphere deformation pattern into the deep mantle
during subduction.