Evolving force balance during incipient subduction
@article{Gurnis2004EvolvingFB,
title={Evolving force balance during incipient subduction},
author={Michael Gurnis and Chad E. Hall and Luc L. Lavier},
journal={Geochemistry},
year={2004},
volume={5},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:18412472}
}Nearly half of all active subduction zones initiated during the Cenozoic. All subduction zones associated with active back arc extension have initiated since the Eocene, hinting that back arc extension may be intimately associated with an interval (several tens of Myr) following subduction initiation. That such a large proportion of subduction zones are young indicates that subduction initiation is a continuous process in which the net resisting force associated with forming a new subduction…
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