Variations of slab dip and overriding plate tectonics during subduction: Insights from analogue modelling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 463, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 167-174

  Guillaume, Benjamin ^a   Martinod, Joseph ^a   Espurt, Nicolas ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Analogue models; Slab dip; Subduction; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DIP; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 57449102555     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.043     Document Type: Article

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