Can microplate rotation drive subduction inversion?

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 823-826

  Webb, L E ^a,c   Baldwin, S L ^a   Little, T A ^b   Fitzgerald, P G ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Microplate rotation; Subduction inversion; Ultrahigh pressure

Indexed keywords

COUNTERCLOCKWISE ROTATIONS; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; LATE MIOCENE; MICROPLATE; MICROPLATE ROTATION; PACIFIC PLATES; PAPUA NEW GUINEAS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SUBDUCTION INVERSION; SUBDUCTION THRUSTS; TECTONIC PROCESSES; TEMPORAL PATTERNS; ULTRAHIGH; ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE;

ROTATION;

TECTONICS;

EXHUMATION; MICROPLATE; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 54949109815     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25134A.1     Document Type: Article

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