Subduction of the Western Pacific Plate underneath Northeast China: Implications of numerical studies

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 178, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 92-99

  Zhu, Guizhi ^a   Shi, Yaolin ^b   Tackley, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Deep subduction; Northeast China; Trench retreat; Western Pacific plate

Indexed keywords

EURASIAN PLATES; GAIN INSIGHT; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; INITIAL TIME; NORTHEAST CHINA; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PACIFIC PLATES; REGIONAL MODEL; SUBDUCTION PROCESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; VELOCITY PATTERNS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

TOMOGRAPHY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EURASIAN PLATE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PACIFIC PLATE; SUBDUCTION; TRENCH; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 72049115778     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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