Dynamic models of downgoing plate-buoyancy driven subduction: Subduction motions and energy dissipation

• 14 October 2007
• journal article
• research article
• Published by Elsevier in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Vol. 262  (1-2) , 284-297
• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.039

Abstract

Keywords

• SUBDUCTION
• TRENCH MOTION
• PLATE ADVANCE
• LITHOSPHERE BUOYANCY
• MANTLE DRAG
• FINITE-ELEMENT MODELING