Slab pull is a geophysical mechanism whereby the cooling and subsequent densifying of a subducting tectonic plate produces a downward force along the...

is thus thought that forces associated with the downgoing plate (slab pull and slab suction) are the driving forces which determine the motion of plates...

flattened slabs are only temporarily arrested in the transition zone. The subsequent displacement into the lower mantle is caused by slab pull forces, or...

slab pull was generally considered the dominant mechanism driving plate tectonics. Modern research, however, indicates that the effects of slab pull are...

used in construction Slab (casting), a length of metal Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that is subducting Slab pull force, the tectonic...

amounts of displacement. It is because of these forces, slab pull, ridge push, mantle convection, and slab suction that the Earth's crust is able to move and...

which they attach in a process known as slab pull and by inducing currents in the mantle via slab suction. The slab affects the convection and evolution...

causing sliding of the plate downslope. In slab pull the weight of a tectonic plate being subducted (pulled) below an overlying plate at a subduction zone...

asthenosphere. The slab pull forces will, however, still be present and this normally leads to the breaking off or detachment of the descending slab from the rest...

continues subduction. This continental undertow is explained by the slab pull concept. Slab pull is the concept that plate motion is driven by the weight of cool...