mantle wedge is a triangular shaped piece of mantle that lies above a subducting tectonic plate and below the overriding plate. This piece of mantle can...

The subducting plate, or slab, sinks into the mantle at an angle, so that there is a wedge of mantle between the slab and the overriding plate.: 5  The...

seismicity and induce melting within the subducted plate and in the overlying mantle wedge. This type of melting selectively concentrates volatiles and transports...

soluble elements into the overlying wedge of mantle. Fluxing water into the wedge lowers the solidus of the mantle material and causes partial melting...

the mantle wedge closer to the trench is dominated by the denser and colder subducting slab, resulting in a cold, stagnant portion of the mantle wedge. Initial...

ISBN 0-442-20623-2. Taylor, Brian; Martinez, Fernando (March 2002). "Mantle wedge control on back-arc crustal accretion". Nature. 416 (6879): 417–420....

the mantle wedge. Trench suction is included in this causal mechanism. Trench suction is induced by the flow of the asthenosphere in the mantle wedge area;...

essence, continental arcs reflect a mixture of oceanic crust materials, mantle wedge and continental crust materials. When two tectonic plates collide, relatively...

may represent melt contamination with the peridotites of the overlying mantle wedge. Adakites have also been reported from the continent-continent collision...

lead to the chemical alteration of the mantle wedge and the melting of the wedge. The peridotitic mantle wedge was mixed with intermediate to felsic melts...