Buckling instabilities of subducted lithosphere beneath the transition zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 173-179

  Ribe, N M ^a   Stutzmann, E ^a   Ren, Y ^a   van der Hilst, R ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling instabilities; Seismic tomography; Subduction

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING INSTABILITY; LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION;

BUCKLING; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

BUCKLING; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; JAVA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 33846277662     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.028     Document Type: Article

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