Reply to comment on "The potential influence of subduction zone polarity on overriding plate deformation, trench migration and slab dip angle"

Tectonophysics

Volumn 463, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 214-217

  Schellart, W P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH;

EID: 57449107892     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.03.016     Document Type: Note

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