Introduction: An overview of ridge-trench interactions in modern and ancient settings

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 371, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-18

  Sisson, Virginia B ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^b   Roeske, Sarah M ^c   Thorkelson, Derek J ^d  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Antarctica; Chile; Cordillera; Forearc magmatism; Japan; Neogene; Pacific plate; Ridge subduction; Spain; Triple junction interaction

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; FOREARC BASIN; MAGMATISM; NEOGENE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRENCH; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

CHILE; JAPAN; SPAIN;

EID: 84870914808     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2371-X.1     Document Type: Review

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