Side Edge of Kamchatka Slab

We installed 15 station seismic experiment funded by NSF, 1997-1999. The purpose was to image the subducting Pacific Plate below Eurasia.

Lees, J.M., J. VanDecar, E. Gordeev, A. Ozerov, M. Brandon, J. Park, and V. Levin, (2007) Three Dimensional Images of the Kamchatka-Pacific Plate Cusp, in Volcanism and Subduction: The Kamchatka Region, pp. 65-75

Yogodzinski, G.M., J.M. Lees, T.G. Churikova, F. Dorendorf, G. Woerner, and O.N. Volynets, (2001): Geochemical evidence for the melting of subducting oceanic lithosphere at plate edges, Nature, 409, 500-504

Davaille, A., and J.M. Lees, (2004) Thermal modeling of subducted plates: tear and hot spot at the Kamchatka corner, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 226 (3-4), 293-304, DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.07.024

Peyton, V., V. Levin, J. Park, M. Brandon, J. Lees, E. Gordeev, and A. Ozerov (2001) Mantle Flow at a Slab Edge: Seismic Anisotropy in the Kamchatka Region, Geophys. Res. Letts. 28(2), 379-382

Park, J., Levin, V., Brandon, M., Lees, J., Peyton, V., Gordeev, E., and Ozerov, A., (2002), A dangling slab, amplified arc volcanism, mantle flow and seismic anisotropy in the Kamchatka Plate Corner, in Stein, S., and Freymuller, J., eds., Plate Boundary Zones, p. 295-324