Slab suction is one of the four main forces that drive plate tectonics. It creates a force that pulls down plates as they are subducting and speeds up...

to subduction Slab suction, one of the major plate tectonic driving forces Slab window, a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate Slab (fossil) and...

dense plates sinking into the mantle at oceanic trenches. This force and slab suction account for almost all of the force driving plate tectonics. The ridge...

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...

of the slab). Furthermore, slabs that are broken off and sink into the mantle can cause viscous mantle forces driving plates through slab suction. In the...

"The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of "slab suction" versus "slab pull" during the Cenozoic". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid...

Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction Transform fault Volcanic arc Ocean zones Benthic...

"The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of "slab suction" versus "slab pull" during the Cenozoic." Journal of Geophysical Research 109(B10):...

role in slab rollback. Stagnation at the 660-km discontinuity causes retrograde slab motion due to the suction forces acting at the surface. Slab rollback...

plate and enhanced trench suction. The west coast of South America has two of the largest flat slab subduction zones. Flat slab subduction is occurring...