Trench migration and subduction zone geometry

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-224

  Olbertz, D ^a   Wortel, M J R ^a   Hansen, U ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOSITY; GEOMETRY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

RETROGRADE MOTION; SEISMIC ANOMALIES; SUBDUCTION ZONE GEOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRENCH MIGRATION; VISCOSITY INTERFACE;

TECTONICS; SEISMOLOGY;

OCEAN TRENCH; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRENCHES; VISCOSITY;

CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; MODEL TEMPERATURES; RETROGRADE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

EID: 0031079066     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03971     Document Type: Article

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