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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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