Reply to comment from Bruce Buffett on "Evolution of the slab bending radius and the bending dissipation in three-dimensional subduction models with a variable slab to upper mantle viscosity ratio"

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 702-705

  Schellart, W P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bending dissipation; Bending radius; Potential energy; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956012235     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.021     Document Type: Note

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