Shallow slab detachment as a transient source of heat at midlithospheric depths

Tectonics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 868-882

  van de Zedde, D M A ^a   Wortel, M J R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0035693001     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC900018     Document Type: Article

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