Buoyancy rather than rheology controls the thickness of the overriding mechanical lithosphere at subduction zones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3037-3040

  Rowland, Andrea ^a,b   Davies, J Huw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LFP Ensign   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; ELASTICITY; HEAT TRANSFER; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TECTONICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BUOYANCY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SUBDUCTION;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MANTLE VISCOSITY; RHEOLOGY CONTROL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL STRUCTURE; WORK SUPPORT;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0033209587     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005347     Document Type: Article

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