The effects of the overriding plate thermal state on the slab dip in an ocean-continent subduction system

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 343, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 323-330

  Roda, Manual ^a   Marotta, Anna Maria ^a   Spalla, Maria Iolle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lithosphere thermal state; Numerical models; Slab dip; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79958735580     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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