Mantle convection in the Middle East: Reconciling Afar upwelling, Arabia indentation and Aegean trench rollback

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 254-269

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Becker, Thorsten W ^b   Jolivet, Laurent ^c   Keskin, Mehmet ^d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^d ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continental deformation; Mantle convection; Middle East; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL DEFORMATION; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; GEOCHEMICAL FINGERPRINTS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MIDDLE EAST; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; VOLCANISM;

VELOCITY;

TECTONICS;

BACKARC BASIN; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ENTRAINMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MANTLE CONVECTION; NEOGENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRENCH; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM; WAVE SPLITTING;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84881545415     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.043     Document Type: Article

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