Chilean flat slab subduction controlled by overriding plate thickness and trench rollback

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-38

  Manea, Vlad C ^a   Marta, Pérez Gussinyé ^b   Manea, Marina ^a  

^a CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLIVIAN OROCLINE; CENOZOIC; FLAT SLABS; MANTLE FLOW; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERU-CHILE TRENCH; PLATE THICKNESS; SLAB GEOMETRY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL EVOLUTION; STRESS PATTERNS; SUCTION FORCE; TIME-DEPENDENT;

GEOLOGY;

GEOMETRY;

CRATON; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SLAB; STRESS; SUBDUCTION;

CHILE; PERU;

EID: 84855433169     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32543.1     Document Type: Article

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