Flat slab subduction is characterized by a low subduction angle (<30 degrees to horizontal) beyond the seismogenic layer and a resumption of normal subduction...
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and wide enough to support flat slab subduction and why the Laramide flat slab subduction and South China flat slab subduction were possible. Hu ultimately...
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suggested that slab melting contributed to the adakitic imprint on the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, prompted by the prolonged flat subduction of the Cocos...
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subducted slabs by seismic imaging. Subduction slabs are dynamic; slab characteristics such as slab temperature evolution, flat-slab, deep-slab, and slab detachment...
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Nazca Ridge (section Subduction and migration history)
±3 km thick. This crust is buoyant, resulting in flat slab subduction under Peru. This flat slab subduction has been associated with the uplift of Pisco Basin...
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South China Craton (section Flat slab subduction model)
slab. However, adakitic rock is formed from melting the slab directly. Recent research shows that slab melting is possible in flat-slab subduction. ...
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hypotheses propose that oceanic crust was undergoing flat-slab subduction, that is, subduction at a shallow angle. As a consequence, no magmatism occurred...
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Farallon Plate (redirect from Farallon slab)
form a slab below the lighter continent. Multiple studies show that the subduction of the Farallon Plate was characterized by a period of "flat-slab subduction...
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Grenville Province (section Flat Slab Subduction)
of formation were dominated by arrested subduction. The type of tectonism then changed to flat slab subduction. In the late stages of formation the tectonism...
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Andean Volcanic Belt (redirect from Peruvian flat-slab segment)
segment or Norte Chico flat-slab segment, a region devoid of volcanism due to a lower subduction angle caused by the subduction of Juan Fernández Ridge...
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