In geology, a slab window is a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate when a mid-ocean ridge meets with a subduction zone and plate divergence at...

Look up slab in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slab or SLAB may refer to: Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction Stone slab, a flat...

ridge subduction and slab window tectonics". That is, a slab window — and a single subducted ridge can give rise to multiple slab windows — can provide adequate...

e. in the slab window. This rise of the heat flow anomaly time implies that there is probably only a thin crustal lid above the slab window. The presence...

since 14 million years ago (Ma). The ridge-collision has generated a slab window beneath the overlying South America Plate, with smaller volume of upper...

subduction trench into the current Cascadia subduction zone and creating a slab window. Geology portal Izanagi Plate Kula Plate Kula–Farallon Ridge Pacific-Farallon...

subducted slabs by seismic imaging. Subduction slabs are dynamic; slab characteristics such as slab temperature evolution, flat-slab, deep-slab, and slab detachment...

Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction Transform fault Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis...

here is also warming from below. The slab gap hypothesis proposes that instead of a "window", the descending slab leaves behind a "gap" through which the...

the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur Slab window – Type of gap in a subducted oceanic plate Wilson Cycle – Geophysical...