Slab surface temperature in subduction zones: Influence of the interplate decoupling depth and upper plate thinning processes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 324-338

  Arcay, D ^a   Tric, E ^a   Doin, M P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

mantle wedge; rheology; slab thermal state; subduction; water weakening

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RHEOLOGY; ROCKS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE ROCKS; SUBDUCTION; THERMAL CONVECTION;

TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL THINNING; P-T-T PATH; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TECTONIC WEDGE;

EID: 33847317028     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.027     Document Type: Article

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