Control of seafloor aging on the migration of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana trench

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 386-398

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Di Giuseppe, Erika ^a   Funiciello, Francesca ^a   Lallemand, Serge ^b   van Hunen, Jeroen ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

numerical modelling; subduction zone; trenches; Western Pacific

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC; MARIANA TRENCH; MESOZOIC; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL TESTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATES; REFERENCE FRAME; ROLL BACK; SEA FLOOR; SLAB PULL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER PLATE; WESTERN PACIFIC;

TECTONICS;

AGING; ASYMMETRY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRENCH;

IZU-BONIN ARC; MARIANA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 70450265363     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.042     Document Type: Article

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