Laboratory models of the thermal evolution of the mantle during rollback subduction

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6953, 2003, Pages 58-62

  Kincaid, C ^a   Griffiths, R W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TECTONICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLCANOES;

LITHOSPHERE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

LABORATORY METHOD; MODELING; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLOW; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEATING; LABORATORY; MANTLE; MELTING POINT; MOTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDUCTION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VELOCITY; VOLCANO;

EID: 0042824003     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01923     Document Type: Article

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