Collisional model for rapid fore-arc block rotations, arc curvature, and episodic back-arc rifting in subduction settings

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wallace, Laura M ^a   Ellis, Susan ^a   Mann, Paul ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Back arc rifting; Collision; Microplate rotation; Subduction; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749126907     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002220     Document Type: Article

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