Small-scale convection under the back-arc occurring in the low viscosity wedge

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 703-715

  Honda, Satoru ^a   Saito, Mitsunobu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back arc; Island arc magmatism; Small scale convection

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CONVECTION; ISLAND ARC; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MANTLE; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION; VISCOSITY; WAVELENGTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 0348207597     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00537-5     Document Type: Article

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