%0 Journal Article %T No large earthquakes in fully exposed subducted seamount %+ Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP) %+ Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) %+ Geological Survey of Iran %A Bonnet, Guillaume %A Agard, Philippe %A Angiboust, Samuel %A Fournier, Marc %A Omrani, J. %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0091-7613 %J Geology %I Geological Society of America %V 47 %N 5 %P 407-410 %8 2019-03-06 %D 2019 %R 10.1130/G45564.1 %Z Sciences of the Universe [physics]Journal articles %X Bathymetric highs on the ocean floor ultimately sink into highly seismic subduction zones,raising vigorous debates on their potential to trigger or arrest large earthquakes (Mw > 7.5). Many geophysical and seismological studies addressing this problem meet penetration and/or resolution issues and deal with only the most recent earthquakes. We herein present the missing piece of the puzzle with the time-integrated field and petrographic record of a unique, almost intact subducted seamount cropping out along a fossil subduction interface. We document seamount buildup and subduction down to ~30 km, and we show that this seamount did not behave as a large earthquake asperity and may have acted as a barrier. %G English %L insu-03978986 %U https://insu.hal.science/insu-03978986 %~ INSU %~ UNIV-PARIS7 %~ AFRIQ %~ CNRS %~ IPGP %~ ISTEP %~ USPC %~ SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE %~ SORBONNE-UNIV %~ SU-SCIENCES %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ ALLIANCE-SU