Papers presented by Simon Klemperer at the

"MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Institute: Inside the Subduction Factory"

Stanford undergraduates, please consider applying for one of our two funded Undergraduate Research Opportunity positions on the research cruise associated with this project, and for subsequent undergraduate research at Stanford (financial support and academic credit are available for this research).

For additional information about the scientific objectives of the project, please download any of the following documents and figures


Crustal structure of the Mariana Subduction Factory (9 page extended abstract)



accompanying Figures 1, 2, 3 (regional maps and cross-sections of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc)

accompanying Figure 4 (bathymetry and geologic elements of the southern Mariana arc)



accompanying Figure 5 (comparison of crustal seismic-velocity cross-sections of the Izu-Bonin and Aleutian intra-oceanic arcs)


















US-Japan Collaborative Research: Multi-scale Seismic Imaging of the Mariana Subduction Factory (3 page summary of planned seismic experiments in which the Stanford Crustal Geophysics group will participate)

accompanying experiment location map



Useful links:

more lecture notes from the MARGINS Theoretical and Experimental Institute: Inside the Subduction Factory

the MARGINS Izu-Bonin-Mariana focus site home page

the MARGINS "Subduction Factory" experiment home page



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