Comment on "The potential influence of subduction zone polarity on overriding plate deformation, trench migration and slab dip angle" by W.P. Schellart

Tectonophysics

Volumn 463, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 208-213

  Doglioni, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Subduction hinge; Trench migration; Westward drift

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH;

EID: 57449095048     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.02.012     Document Type: Note

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