Dynamics of retreating slabs: 2. Insights from three-dimensional laboratory experiments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Funiciello, Francesca ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^b   Giardini, Domenico ^a   Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convection; Episodicity; Laboratory experiments; Subduction

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; LABORATORY METHOD; MANTLE CONVECTION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TRENCH;

EID: 0042593401     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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