Kinematics of slab tear faults during subduction segmentation and implications for Italian magmatism

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Rosenbaum, Gideon ^a   Gasparon, Massimo ^a   Lucente, Francesco P ^b   Peccerillo, Angelo ^c   Miller, Megham S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; FAULT; KINEMATICS; MAGMATISM; MINERALIZATION; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEGMENTATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 50649103027     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002143     Document Type: Article

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