The cessation of igneous activity and uplift when an actively spreading ridge is subducted beneath an island arc

Island Arc

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 361-371

  Osozawa, Soichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arc magmatism; Diachronous; Metamorphism; Ridge subduction; Slab window; Triple junction; Uplift

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; METAMORPHISM; RIDGE SUBDUCTION; SLAB WINDOW; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPLIFT;

JAPAN;

EID: 0031448382     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1997.tb00046.x     Document Type: Article

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