Analogue models for the transpressional docking of volcanic arcs in the Western Pacific

Tectonophysics

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 33-52

  Pubellier, M ^a   Cobbold, P R ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELLING; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE ZONES; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS; TRANSPRESSIONAL DOCKING; VOLCANIC ARC; VOLCANIC ARCS;

PACIFIC, (WEST); PACIFIC, (WESTERN);

EID: 0029729062     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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