Slow rates of subduction erosion estimated from subsidence and tilting of the Tonga forearc

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 411-414

  Clift, Peter D ^a   MacLeod, Christopher J ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL EROSION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THINNING; FOREARC; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGMATISMS; MASS WASTING; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE COOLING; SUBDUCTION EROSION; SUBDUCTION INITIATION; TECTONIC EROSION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

BUILDINGS; EROSION; SUBSIDENCE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

TECTONICS; EROSION;

CRUST; CRUSTAL THINNING; EROSION; FOREARC BASIN; MAGMATISM; MASS WASTING; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TRENCH; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH FIJI BASIN; TONGA;

EID: 0032869546     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0411:SROSEE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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