Foundering of the lithosphere at the onset of subduction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1527-1529

  Schubert, Gerald ^a,b   Zhang, Keke ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; GEOMETRY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VISCOSITY; GEOLOGY; LOADS (FORCES); SURFACES;

ANALYTIC THEORY; CARTESIAN MODEL; INSTANTANEOUS RESPONSE; LITHOSPHERIC SLAB; MANTLE VISCOSITY; SEMI-INFINITE PLATE; SINKING VELOCITY; SUBSIDENCE VELOCITY;

VELOCITY; GEOPHYSICS;

LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION;

FOUNDERING; LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0031156239     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01370     Document Type: Article

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