Quantifying the net slab pull force as a driving mechanism for plate tectonics

Details Quantifying the net slab pull force as a driving mechanism for plate tectonics Quantifying the net slab pull force as a driving mechanism for plate tectonics

Apr 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3107611s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 7, CiteID L07611

Physics

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Tectonophysics: Dynamics Of Lithosphere And Mantle-General, Tectonophysics: Dynamics, Convection Currents And Mantle Plumes, Gravity And Tectonics, Tectonophysics: Plate Motions-General, Tectonophysics: Stresses-Crust And Lithosphere

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It has remained unclear how much of the negative buoyancy force of the slab (FB) is used to pull the trailing plate at the surface into the mantle. Here I present three-dimensional laboratory experiments to quantify the net slab pull force (FNSP) with respect to FB during subduction. Results show that FNSP increases with increasing slab length and dip up to ~8-12% of FB, making FNSP up to twice as large as the ridge push force. The remainder of FB is primarily used to drive rollback-induced mantle flow (~70%), to bend the subducting plate at the trench (~15-30%) and to overcome shear resistance between slab and mantle (0-8%).

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