Non-lithostatic pressure in subduction zones

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 414-422

  Raimbourg, Hugues ^a   Kimura, Gaku ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

non lithostatic pressure; overpressure; subduction channel

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL GEOMETRIES; CHANNEL MODELLING; CHANNEL WALLS; LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE; MANTLE VISCOSITIES; NEW APPROACHES; NON-LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OVERPRESSURE; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; SUBDUCTION CHANNEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER BOUNDS;

CHANNEL FLOW; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DEFORMATION; DOMAIN WALLS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT GEOMETRY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERPRESSURE; PRESSURE EFFECT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 52749084282     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.037     Document Type: Article

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