Modeling the evolution of continental subduction processes in the Pamir-Hindu Kush region

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 212-225

  Negredo, Ana M ^a   Replumaz, Anne ^b   Villaseñor, Antonio ^c   Guillot, Stéphane ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

continental subduction; Hindu Kush; numerical modeling; Pamir; rheology; temperature

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTION; PALEOMAGNETIC RECONSTRUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

BRITTLENESS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HINDU KUSH; PAMIRS;

EID: 34250784076     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.043     Document Type: Article

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