Stagnant slab, wet plumes and Cenozoic volcanism in East Asia

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 280-287

  Richard, Guillaume C ^a   Iwamori, Hikaru ^b   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cenozoic volcanism; East Asia; Stagnant slab; Subduction; Water; Wet plume

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC VOLCANISM; EAST ASIA; STAGNANT SLAB; SUBDUCTION; WET PLUME;

HYDRATES;

MELTING;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TIMESCALE; TRANSITION ZONE; VOLCANISM;

FAR EAST;

EID: 77958452824     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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