SZ4D: Interdisciplinary Studies of Subduction Zone Hazards

Session ID#: 123710

Session Description:
Severe geologic hazards, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and mass wasting, disproportionally occur at subduction zones. Understanding the underlying processes that control these catastrophic events, and the timescales on which they occur, inherently requires an interdisciplinary approach. We invite abstract submissions that investigate geologic hazards in subduction zones through approaches that cross the usual disciplinary boundaries, including the use of emerging technologies. These approaches may combine data from disparate disciplinary fields to answer new questions or cross the geographic boundaries that often separate studies of the megathrust, magmatic arc, backarc, and forearc regions. We encourage submissions that include some combination of geologic measurements, experiments, remote sensing, and geophysical instrumentation.
Co-Organized:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

3060 Subduction zone processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
7209 Earthquake dynamics [SEISMOLOGY]
8170 Subduction zone processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8488 Volcanic hazards and risks [VOLCANOLOGY]


Primary Convener:  Melodie E French, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Peter H Barry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, Sean F Gallen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Alison R Duvall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Donna J Shillington, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Melodie E French, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
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