Numerical models of slab migration in continental collision zones

Solid Earth

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 293-306

  Magni, V ^a,b   Van Hunen, J ^c   Funiciello, F ^a   Faccenna, C ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTIONS; INTRINSIC FEATURES; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SUBDUCTION DYNAMICS; SUBDUCTION PROCESS;

LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRENCH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84874917224     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-3-293-2012     Document Type: Article

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