Sunda-Banda arc transition: Incipient continent-island arc collision (northwest Australia)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Shulgin, A ^a   Kopp, H ^b   Mueller, C ^b   Lueschen, E ^b   Planert, L ^a   Engels, M ^b   Flueh, E R ^a   Krabbenhoeft, A ^a   Djajadihardja, Y ^c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c AGENCY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY BPPT   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AUSTRALIA; BACK-ARC; COLLISION ZONE; COLLISIONAL SYSTEM; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY MODELING; ISLAND ARC; MULTI-CHANNEL; OCEANIC SUBDUCTION; REFLECTION SEISMIC; STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY; STRUCTURAL MODELS; SUNDA ARC;

MODEL STRUCTURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

CAVITY RESONATORS;

ACCRETION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL ARC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGING METHOD; ISLAND ARC; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BANDA ARC; EURASIA; INDONESIAN SEAS; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMBA; SUNDA ARC; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 67651111679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037533     Document Type: Article

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