Mantle conveyor beneath the Tethyan collisional belt

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 453-461

  Becker, Thorsten W ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Mantle upwelling; Plate driving forces; Plate motions

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVEYOR BELTS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; DRIVING FORCES; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN PLATE; MANTLE CIRCULATION; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; PLATE DRIVING FORCES; PLATE MOTIONS; RESISTING FORCES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE;

BELT CONVEYORS; LITHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

KINEMATICS;

ARABIAN PLATE; BELT; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DENSITY; INDIAN PLATE; KINEMATICS; MANTLE PROCESS; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

EURASIA;

EID: 80053378955     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.021     Document Type: Article

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