Subduction-channel model of prism accretion, melange formation, sediment subduction, and subduction erosion at convergent plate margins: 1. Background and description

Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 1988, Pages 455-500

  Cloos, Mark ^a   Shreve, Ronald L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

accretionary prism; melange; offscraping; sediment subduction; subduction accretion; subduction erosion; Subduction zone; underplating

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; MELANGE; OFFSCRAPING; SEDIMENT SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION EROSION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UNDERPLATING;

EID: 0024250268     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00874548     Document Type: Article

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233. Role of Subducted Sediment in the Genesis of Ocean-Island Basalts: Geochemical Evidence from South Atlantic Ocean Islands
234. Long Décollements and Mud Volcanoes: Evidence from the Barbados Ridge Complex for the Role of High Pore-Fluid Pressure in the Development of an Accretionary Complex
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243. Isotopic and Trace Element Geochemistry of young Pacific Seamounts: Implications for the Scale of Upper Mantle Heterogeneity