Nature of the plate contact and subduction zones diversity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 245-253

  De Franco, Roberta ^a   Govers, Rob ^a   Wortel, Rinus ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

accretionary margins; back arc deformation; erosive margins; large earthquakes; subduction zones

Indexed keywords

(SPM) CLASSES; BACK-ARC DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTROLLING FACTORS; ELSEVIER (CO); GEODYNAMIC MODELING; NORTHERN CHILE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS); TECTONIC PROCESSES;

CAVITY RESONATORS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTS; MICROFLUIDICS; RHENIUM; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FAULT; GEODYNAMICS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; CHILE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; PERU; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 45049088588     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.019     Document Type: Article

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