Rheologic controls on the dynamics of slab detachment

Tectonophysics

Volumn 464, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 60-69

  Andrews, Erin R ^a   Billen, Magali I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Rheology; Slab break off; Slab detachment; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEAS; DETACHMENT TIMES; NEWTONIANS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLASTIC YIELDING; SINKING RATES; SLAB AGES; SLAB BREAK-OFF; SLAB DETACHMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE EFFECTS; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTIONS; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELTS; UPPER MANTLES; YIELD STRENGTHS;

COLLOIDS; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; STIFFNESS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

RHEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; LITHOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 58049135936     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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