On the role of subducting oceanic plateaus in the development of shallow flat subduction

Tectonophysics

Volumn 352, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 317-333

  Van Hunen, Jeroen ^a   Van Den Berg, Arie P ^a   Vlaar, Nico J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Flat subduction; Kinetics; Metamorphism; Oceanic plateaus; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; MODELING; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION; SUBMARINE PLATEAU;

EID: 0037025587     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00263-9     Document Type: Article

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