Generation of ascending flows in the Big Mantle Wedge (BMW) beneath northeast Asia induced by retreat and stagnation of subducted slab

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kameyama, Masanori ^a   Nishioka, Ryoko ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ASCENDING FLOW; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE WEDGE; NORTHEAST ASIA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

TECTONICS;

FLOW PATTERN; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; KINEMATICS; MANTLE CONVECTION; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

NORTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84861674591     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051678     Document Type: Article

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