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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Farallon Plate (redirect from Farallon slab)
    subduction trench into the current Cascadia subduction zone and creating a slab window. Geology portal Izanagi Plate Kula Plate Kula–Farallon Ridge Pacific-Farallon...
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    subducted slabs by seismic imaging. Subduction slabs are dynamic; slab characteristics such as slab temperature evolution, flat-slab, deep-slab, and slab detachment...
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  • Oceanic crust Outer trench swell Ridge push Seafloor spreading Slab pull Slab suction Slab window Subduction Transform fault Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis...
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  • 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...
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    the Pacific Ocean where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur Slab window – Type of gap in a subducted oceanic plate Wilson Cycle – Geophysical...
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