Active slivering of oceanic crust along the Molucca ridge (Indonesia-Philippine): Implication for ophiolite incorporation in a subduction wedge?

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 606-620

  Bader, Anne Gaëlle ^a,c   Pubellier, Manuel ^a,e   Rangin, Claude ^a,e   Deplus, Christine ^b   Louat, Rémy ^b,d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION;

MOLUCCA RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION PROCESS; FORE-ARC BASIN; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; LITHOSPHERIC SLAB; PHILIPPINE SEAS; TERRANE ACCRETION;

TECTONICS;

EID: 0033431061     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC900004     Document Type: Article

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