Numerical modelling of spontaneous slab breakoff and subsequent topographic response

Tectonophysics

Volumn 502, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 244-256

  Duretz, Thibault ^a   Gerya, Taras V ^a   May, Dave A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Peierls creep mechanism; Slab breakoff; Slab detachment; Topographic evolution

Indexed keywords

COLLISION SYSTEMS; CREEP MECHANISM; ENDMEMBERS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PARAMETER SPACES; PEIERLS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR; SLAB AGE; SLAB BREAKOFF; SLAB DETACHMENT; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TOPOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT RATE;

CREEP; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

EXPERIMENTS;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CREEP; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EID: 78649727837     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.024     Document Type: Article

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