In general, crustal extension was most evident in areas of earlier crustal thickening, a relationship which suggests that overthickened crust was susceptible to gravitational collapse when plate convergence slowed.
In an exhibition that he called "Plate Convergence," he presented his pottery as the work of Shoji Yamaguchi, a Japanese master potter who, after surviving the Hiroshima bombing, moved to Mississippi, married a black civil-rights activist, and formed a commune.
Vpl is the plate convergence rate (0.05 m/yr).
The plate convergence rate is assumed to be 8 cm y−1.
M is the MDR predicted from the asperity area and the plate convergence rate.
Induced subduction initiation, on the other hand, is characterised by external forces supporting plate convergence.
Blue, white, yellow-green and red colors for the slip velocity correspond to locking, slip with plate convergence rate, aseismic slip (faster than the plate convergence rate) and seismic slip, respectively.
Modes of the Philippine Sea plate convergence are schematically shown by the length and azimuth of the arrows.
SWJ has been under the influence of the Philippine Sea plate convergence and is characterized by more complicated deformation patterns.
Fig. 4 Relation between the estimated background seismicity rates and the plate convergence rates in Table 2.
After EQ1 or 2, aseismic sliding appears whose slip velocity is 34~62% of the plate convergence rate.
