Accretionary wedge earthquakes usually occur in the overriding crust close to trench or above cold nose of mantle wedge. However, mechanism and temperature properties related slab dip angle remain poorly understood. Based on 3D thermal models estimate subduction plate structure, we investigate distribution Alaska, which has a varying along trench. The horizontal distance wedge-earthquake hypoce...

The transfer (accretion) of materials from a subducting oceanic plate to a subduction-accretionary complex has produced rock assemblages recording the history of the subducted oceanic plate from formation to arrival at the trench. These rock assemblages, comprising oceanic igneous rocks progressively overlain by pelagic sedimentary rocks (chert and/or limestone) and trench-fill clastic sediment...

' L aboratoire de G éochim ie e l M étallogén ie (C N R S VA 196), U niversité P ierre et M arie Curie, 4 p la ce Jussieu, 75252 P aris C édex 05 (France) ' Faculty o f Science, U niversity o f Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, T okyo 113 (Japan) ' D 3G M , IF R E M E R , C entre de Brest, B .P. 337, 29273 Brest C édex (France) 4 L aborato ire de Géochimie, U niversité L ibre de Bruxelles, 50 Av. F.D. Roosevel...

Accelerated terrestrial neutron irradiations were performed on different commercial SiC power MOSFETs with planar, trench, and double-trench architectures. The results used to calculate the failure cross sections failure-in-time (FIT) rates at sea level. Enhanced gate drain leakage observed in some devices which did not exhibit a destructive during exposure. In particular, mechanism was for pla...

The use of plasmonic sensor devices often requires replaceable parts and disposable chips for easy, fast and on-site detection analysis. In light of these requests, we propose a novel low-cost surface plasmon resonance sensor platform for possible selective detection of analytes in aqueous solutions. It is based on a Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) slab waveguide with a thin gold film on the top...

An integral part of this project was to conduct an investigation of the full scale septic system that has been operating continuously at Modern Landfill since 2000. The design of this system was described in detail in Spagnoli et al., (2001) This system provides an ideal test bed to evaluate the long-term acceptability of tire derived aggregate (TDA) as an alternative to stone as the system’s a...

[1] Documenting the mass flux through convergent plate margins is important to the understanding of petrogenesis in arc settings and to the origin of the continental crust, since subduction zones are the only major routes by which material extracted from the mantle can be returned to great depths within the Earth. Despite their significance, there has been a tendency to view subduction zones as...

We evaluate the impacts of using multi-level modulation formats on the transmission capacity of the multi-core fiber (MCF) having trench-assisted index profile and hexagonal layout. For this evaluation, we utilize the spectral efficiency per unit area, defined as the spatial spectral efficiency (SSE). The results show that the SSE improvement achievable by using the higher-level modulation form...

In this article, we take issue with the claim by Sunstein and others that online discussion takes place in echo chambers, and suggest that the dynamics of online debates could be more aptly described by the logic of 'trench warfare', in which opinions are reinforced through contradiction as well as confirmation. We use a unique online survey and an experimental approach to investigate and test ...