Can Earth's rotation and tidal despinning drive plate tectonics?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 484, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 60-73

  Riguzzi, Federica ^a,c   Panza, Giuliano ^b   Varga, Peter ^d   Doglioni, Carlo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Earth's energy budget; Earth's rotation; Plate tectonics; Tidal despinning

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; CRITICAL STATE; DEFORMATION PROCESS; EARTH'S ROTATION; ENERGY BUDGETS; FIRST ORDER; GUTENBERG-RICHTER LAW; LITHOSPHERIC; LOW VISCOSITY; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE TECTONICS; SELF ORGANIZED SYSTEMS; SLAB DIP; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

BUDGET CONTROL; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); MOON; ROTATION; TIDAL POWER;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; EARTH ROTATION; ENERGY BUDGET; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77649184899     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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