Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction: Inside the Subduction Factory
John M. Eiler 1

Section I: The Subducted Slab

Thermal Structure and Metamorphic Evolution of Subducting Slabs
Simon M. Peacock 7

Tracers of the Slab
Tim Elliott 23

Basic Principles of Electromagnetic and Seismological Investigation of Shallow Subduction Zone Structure
George Helffrich 47

Section II: The Mantle Wedge

Seismological Constraints on Structure and Flow Patterns Within the Mantle Wedge
Douglas A. Wiens and Gideon P. Smith 59

Rheology of the Upper Mantle and the Mantle Wedge: A View From the Experimentalists
Greg Hirth and David Kohlstedf 83

Experimental Constraints on Melt Generation in the Mantle Wedge
Glen A. Gaetani and Timothy L Grove 107

Mapping Water Content in Upper Mantle
Shun-ichiro Karato 135

Section III: Focus Regions

Volcanism and Geochemistry in Central America: Progress and Problems
M. J. Carr, M. D. Feigenson, L C. Patino, and J. A. Walker 153

n Overview of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction Factory
Robert J. Stern, Matthew J. Fouch, and Simon L Klemperer 175

Along-strike Variation in Lavas of the Aleutian Island Arc: Genesis of High Mg# Andesite and Implications for Continental Crust
Peter B. Kelemen, Gene M. Yogodzinski, and David W. Scholl 223

Section IV: Synthesis

Some Constraints on Arc Magma Genesis
Yoshiyuki Tatsumi 277

Thermal Structure due to Solid-State Flow in the Mantle Wedge Beneath Arcs
Peter B. Kelemen, Jennifer L. Rilling, E. M. Parmentier, Luc Mehl, and Bradley R. Hacker 293

About the Author

John Eiler is the author of Inside the Subduction Factory, published by Wiley.