Mantle flow in subduction systems: The mantle wedge flow field and implications for wedge processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 583-606

  Long, Maureen D ^a   Wirth, Erin A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FLOW FIELD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 84879236830     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50063     Document Type: Article

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