Subduction and Slab Detachment in the Mediterranean-Carpathian Region

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Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000sci...290.1910w&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 290, Issue 5498, pp. 1910-1917 (2000).

Physics

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Seismic tomography models of the three-dimensional upper mantle velocity structure of the Mediterranean-Carpathian region provide a better understanding of the lithospheric processes governing its geodynamical evolution. Slab detachment, in particular lateral migration of this process along the plate boundary, is a key element in the lithospheric dynamics of the region during the last 20 to 30 million years. It strongly affects arc and trench migration, and causes along-strike variations in vertical motions, stress fields, and magmatism. In a terminal-stage subduction zone, involving collision and suturing, slab detachment is the natural last stage in the gravitational settling of subducted lithosphere.

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