Slab dynamics in the transition zone

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 296-308

  Billen, Magali I ^a   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^a   Bina, Craig ^a   Inoue, Toru ^a   Wiens, Douglas ^a   Jellinek, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle composition; Rheology; Slab dynamics; Subduction; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; BUOYANCY FORCES; LATERAL MIGRATION; MANTLE COMPOSITION; RINGWOODITE; SEISMIC IMAGE; SINKING RATE; SLAB DIP; SLAB DYNAMICS; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION DYNAMICS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSITION ZONES; VISCOUS RESISTANCE; WADSLEYITE;

BUOYANCY; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BUOYANCY FORCING; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SLIP RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 78649448173     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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