On the role of slab pull in the Cenozoic motion of the Pacific plate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a,b   Becker, Thorsten W ^c   Lallemand, Serge ^d   Steinberger, Bernhard ^e,f  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

BOUNDARY MODELS; CENOZOIC; EULER VECTOR; PACIFIC PLATES; SEA FLOOR; SLAB PULL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; PACIFIC; SUBDUCTION;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; PACIFIC PLATE; PULL APART BASIN; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAFLOOR; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERTIARY; TORQUE; PLATE MOTION;

KERMADEC ARC; PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA TRENCH;

EID: 84856946296     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050155     Document Type: Article

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