Sunda-Java trench kinematics, slab window formation and overriding plate deformation since the Cretaceous

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 445-457

  Whittaker, J M ^a   Muller R D ^a   Sdrolias, M ^a   Heine, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

kinematics; slab window; subduction; Sundaland

Indexed keywords

MANTLE WEDGE; RIDGE SUBDUCTION; SLAB WINDOW;

BATHYMETRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KINEMATICS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BACKARC BASIN; BATHYMETRY; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; PLATE MOTION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC WEDGE; TRENCH;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; JAVA TRENCH; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 33847253986     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.031     Document Type: Article

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