Stagnant slab: A review

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 19-46

  Fukao, Yoshio ^a   Obayashi, Masayuki ^a   Nakakuki, Tomoeki ^b   Utada, Hisashi ^c   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^c   Irifune, Tetsuo ^c   Ohtani, Eiji ^c   Yoshioka, Shoichi ^c   Shiobara, Hajime ^c   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^c   Hirose, Kei ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Mantle discontinuity; Mantle dynamics; Subduction; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS; GEODYNAMIC MODELING; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MINERAL PHYSICS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

DEFLECTION; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649846008     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124224     Document Type: Review

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