A regime diagram for subduction styles from 3-D numerical models of free subduction

Tectonophysics

Volumn 483, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 29-45

  Stegman, D R ^a,b   Farrington, R ^b   Capitanio, F A ^b   Schellart, W P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lithosphere dynamics; Mantle dynamics; Plate tectonics; Subduction

Indexed keywords

FLEXURAL STRENGTH; LITHOSPHERE DYNAMICS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATE TECTONICS; PLATE THICKNESS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; REGIME DIAGRAM; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB GEOMETRY; SLAB MORPHOLOGY; SUBDUCTING PLATE; UPPER MANTLE;

BUOYANCY; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

GEOMETRY; LITHOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 76349125329     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.041     Document Type: Article

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