Formation of slab tears controls Earth’s major silicic volcanisms

Lijun Liu1, Jiashun Hu2, Quan Zhou3, Yiming Liu4 and Diandian Peng2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Geophysics, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, China, Wuhan, China, (4)China University of Petroleum, East China, School of Geosciences, Qingdao, China