Slab breakoff depth: A slowdown subduction model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 11-1-11-3

  Li, Gang ^a   Liao, Xinhao ^a   Fu, Rongshan ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOPHYSICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LITHOSPERES; SUBDUCTION;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; PLATE MOTION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONOPHYSICS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0036476902     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013420     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Mechanics of subducted lithosphere
2. Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens
3. Time dependence of negative buoyancy and the subduction of continental lithosphere
4. Three-dimensional numerical modeling of detachment of subducted lithosphere