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Table 9.6 Details of major subduction zones

Approx. Approx. Thermal

Length of subduction dip angle parameter

rate (cm yr −1 )

Subduction zone Plates zone (km) (degrees) (1000 km) Geometry

Kurile-Kamchatka-Honshu Pacific under Eurasia 2800 6-13 40 5-7.5

Tonga-Kermadec-New Zealand Pacific under India 3000 8 60 12-17

Complete

Middle America Cocos under N. America 1900 9 70 < 1

Aleutians Pacific under N. America 3800 6 50 2.5

Sundra-Java-Sumatra-Burma India under Eurasia 5700 7 70 4

New

Cascadia Juan de Fuca under

N. America

1400 2 15 < 1

South Sandwich-Scotia S. America under Scotia 650 2

Slow

Caribbean S. America under

Caribbean

1350 0.5 50

Aegean Africa under Eurasia 1550 3

Solomon-New Hebrides India under Pacific 2750 10 70 9-12

Izu-Bonin-Marianas Pacific under Philippine 4450 10 60 7-12

Bent

Iran Arabian under Eurasia 2250 5 5

Himalayan India under Eurasia 2400 5

Ryukyu-Philippine Philippine under Eurasia 4750 7 45 2-6

Weak or
Broken

Peru-Chile Nazca under S. America 6700 9 30 1.5-5

Note : The subducted plate is oceanic except for the Iran and Himalayan subduction zones, for which all or part of the subducted plate is
continental. Thermal parameter

descent rate.
Sources : After Toks oz (1975), Furlong and Chapman (1982), Stein and Stein (1996) and Kirby et al .(1996).

= age of subducting plate ×