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Leif Tokle
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Anatomy of a Deep Subduction Megathrust: Insights from Syros, Greece
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Dominic Hildebrandt, Whitney M. Behr, Jesús Muñoz-...
Slow Slip and Tremor (SST) are transient slip events that are slower than regular earthquakes and faster than converging plates. First recognized in a...
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Characterization of disGBS in Quartz through Load-stepping Experiments
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS (PPEM): DEFORMATION ACROSS SCALES IV POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 12 december 2023
Leif Tokle, Greg Hirth, Whitney M. Behr
Due to the abundance of quartz in the continental crust, quartz rheology is fundamental to our understanding of many geodynamic processes. Quartz rheo...
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Constraining the Mechanical Properties of Glaucophane Deformed via Dislocation-Controlled Mechanism(s) with Experiments in the General Shear Geometry
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS (PPEM): DEFORMATION ACROSS SCALES IV POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 12 december 2023
Lonnie J. Hufford, Leif Tokle, Whitney M. Behr, Lu...
Glaucophane is a primary strain-accommodating mineral in subducted oceanic crust at blueschist facies conditions and important for our understanding o...
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Diffusion Creep of Sodic Amphibole‐Bearing Blueschist Limited by Microboudinage
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
31 august 2023
Leif Tokle, Lonnie Hufford, Whitney M. Behr, Luiz ...
To investigate the mechanical and microstructural properties of mafic blueschists, we conducted deformation experiments on powdered natural bluesch...
Structural Mapping of the Eclogite Zone, Tauern Window: Implications for the rheology of the subduction zone interface
MULTISCALE CRUSTAL DEFORMATION IN SUBDUCTION ZONES AND THE MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKE CYCLE: PROGRESS FROM OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Leif Tokle, Whitney M. Behr, zoe braden, Miguel Ci...
The subduction zone interface is a shear zone of varying thickness that defines the boundary between the subducting slab and overriding plate. The rhe...
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Experimental Investigation of Glaucophane Rheology Through General Shear Deformation Experiments
CONNECTING THE INS AND OUTS OF SUBDUCTION ZONES: EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND OBSERVATIONS AS CONSTRAINTS FOR INPUTS, PROCESSES, AND OUTPUTS IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 16 december 2021
Lonnie J. Hufford, Leif Tokle, Whitney M. Behr
Based on the rock record, glaucophane is a major constituent mineral associated with subducted mafic oceanic crust at blueschist metamorphic facies. D...
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Diffusion Creep of a Glaucophane-Bearing Blueschist
CONNECTING THE INS AND OUTS OF SUBDUCTION ZONES: EXPERIMENTS, MODELS, AND OBSERVATIONS AS CONSTRAINTS FOR INPUTS, PROCESSES, AND OUTPUTS IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 16 december 2021
Leif Tokle, Lonnie J. Hufford, Luiz Morales, Whitn...
Blueschists are a major constituent rock type along the subduction zone interface and therefore critical to our understanding of subduction zone dynam...
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Assessment of Quartz Grain Growth and the Application of the Wattmeter to Predict Quartz Recrystallized Grain Sizes
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
02 july 2021
Leif Tokle, Greg Hirth
Relationships between the recrystallized grain size and stress are investigated for experimentally deformed water‐added quartz aggregates. Fo...