Material transfer and its influence on the formation of slope basins along the South Central Chilean convergent margin: Insights from scaled sandbox experiments

Tectonophysics

Volumn 513, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 20-36

  Contardo, Ximena J ^a   Kukowski, Nina ^b   Cembrano, José M ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedges; Analog experiments; Basal friction; Climate; Forearc basins; Underthrusting

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; ANALOG SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE; CLIMATIC EPISODES; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FORE-ARC BASIN; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; MAIN PARAMETERS; MARINE BASINS; MATERIAL TRANSFERS; PLATE INTERFACES; SAND LAYER; SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC EROSION; THRUST FAULTS; UNDERPLATING; UNDERTHRUSTING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; BOTTOM FRICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREARC BASIN; GRABEN; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; THRUST FAULT; UPLIFT;

CHILE; PERU;

EID: 82755183624     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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