@article{026de0d92a4b432bb226d086e1695edc,
title = "Preface: Deep slab and mantle dynamics",
author = "Daisuke Suetsugu and Bina, {Craig R.} and Toru Inoue and Wiens, {Douglas A.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are pleased to publish this special issue of the journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors entitled “Deep Slab and Mantle Dynamics”. This issue is an outgrowth of the international symposium “Deep Slab and Mantle Dynamics”, which was held on February 25–27, 2009, in Kyoto, Japan. This symposium was organized by the “Stagnant Slab Project” (SSP) research group to present the results of the 5-year project and to facilitate intensive discussion with well-known international researchers in related fields. The SSP and the symposium were supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (16075101) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government. In the symposium, key issues discussed by participants included: transportation of water into the deep mantle and its role in slab-related dynamics; observational and experimental constraints on deep slab properties and the slab environment; modeling of slab stagnation to constrain its mechanisms in comparison with observational and experimental data; observational, experimental and modeling constraints on the fate of stagnant slabs; eventual accumulation of stagnant slabs on the core-mantle boundary and its geodynamic implications. This special issue is a collection of papers presented in the symposium and other papers related to the subject of the symposium. The collected papers provide an overview of the wide range of multidisciplinary studies of mantle dynamics, particularly in the context of subduction, stagnation, and the fate of deep slabs. ",
year = "2010",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1016/j.pepi.2010.10.001",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "183",
pages = "1--3",
journal = "Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors",
issn = "0031-9201",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "1-2",
}