Origin and consequences of western Mediterranean subduction, rollback, and slab segmentation

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 393-419

  Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a   Vissers, Reinoud L M ^a   Spakman, Wim ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

plate reconstruction; rollback; subduction

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; ROLLBACK; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION INITIATION; SUBDUCTION ROLLBACK; SUBDUCTION-TRANSFORM EDGE PROPAGATOR; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

PETROLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FOREARC BASIN; METAMORPHISM; OLIGOCENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRENCH;

AFRICA; CALABRIA; GIBRALTAR; IBERIAN PENINSULA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PYRENEES; SARDINIA;

EID: 84899043150     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003349     Document Type: Article

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