Modelling gravitational instabilities: Slab break-off and Rayleigh-Taylor diapirism

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1491-1510

  Zlotnik, Sergio ^a   Fernández, Manel ^a   Díez, Pedro ^b   Vergés, Jaume ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

EXtended Finite Element Method (X FEM); Numerical modelling; Subduction; Tectonic plates

Indexed keywords

DIAPIRISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SLAB; STRAIN RATE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC PLATE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRACKING;

EID: 57149118434     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-0386-9     Document Type: Article

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