Effects of oblique subduction on the 3-D pattern of small-scale convection within the mantle wedge

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Honda, Satoru ^a   Yoshida, Takeyoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS;

MANTLE WEDGE; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 24944574259     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023106     Document Type: Article

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