Indian continental subduction and slab break-off during Tertiary collision

Terra Nova

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 290-296

  Replumaz, Anne ^a   Negredo, Ana M ^b   Villaseñor, Antonio ^c   Guillot, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; COLLISION ZONE; LOWER MANTLE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY; TRANSITION ZONE;

INDIA;

EID: 77955126521     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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