Shear heating induced lithospheric-scale localization: Does it result in subduction?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 359-360, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Thielmann, Marcel ^a   Kaus, Boris J P ^b,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical modeling; Scaling; Shear heating; Subduction initiation

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; EARTH-LIKE CONDITIONS; LARGE PLATE; LAYER THICKNESS; LENGTH SCALE; LITHOSPHERIC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC PLATE; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; SCALING; SHEAR HEATING; SHEAR LOCALIZATIONS; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION INITIATION; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

ELASTICITY; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODELS; OLIVINE; RHEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

EID: 84868220862     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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