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

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

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...

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...

lithosphere slabs. Subduction slabs drive plate tectonics by pulling along the lithosphere to which they attach in a process known as slab pull and by inducing...

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...

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

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...

Retrieved 2017-06-21. Garcia-Castellanos, D.; M. Torné; M. Fernàndez (2000). "Slab pull effects from a flexural analysis of the Tonga and Kermadec Trenches (Pacific...

The motivating force for seafloor spreading ridges is tectonic plate slab pull at subduction zones, rather than magma pressure, although there is typically...

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

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...

1029/2011JB008434. Garcia-Castellanos, D.; Torne, M.; Fernandez, M. (2000). "Slab pull effects from a flexural analysis of the Tonga and Kermadec Trenches (Pacific...

that internal and external forces acting upon the mountain belt (e.g., slab pull and intra-plate stress field modulations due to large scale reorganisations...

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

indicate that the active margin of Paleo-Tethys was located here. It was slab-pull forces in the Paleo-Tethys that detached Cimmeria from Gondwana and opened...

weaken and 'tear' from the point of the triple junction. The loss of slab pull caused by the detachment of this lithosphere ended the RTF junction giving...

1995). Because of these different spreading rates caused by subducting slab pull, this allows for sea floor spreading and magma upwelling to form new oceanic...

Africa is an obvious and temporary coincidence. In millions of years, slab pull, ridge-push, and other forces of tectonophysics will further separate...

Eurasian plate. Today, the Arabian plate is experiencing a crustal down pull, or slab pull, that has separated from the African plate. At the same time as the...

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

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

in the formation of the Alps. When the subducting slab broke off (known as slab breakoff, slab pull) and fell away, the subducted crust began moving up...

force of the subducting slab was enough to overcome resistant forces of the lithosphere. This supports the theory of slab-pull subduction, where subduction...

of slab-pull with respect to overall plate movement, combined with the effects of asthenosphere wind pushing the plate to the west. However, the slab seems...

R. D. (30 October 2004). "Magma genesis and mantle flow at a subducting slab edge: the South Sandwich arc-basin system". Earth and Planetary Science Letters...

Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel; Torne, Montserrat; Fernàndez, Manel (2000-05-01). "Slab pull effects from a flexural analysis of the Tonga and Kermadec trenches (Pacific...

a continental plate and presumably an oceanic plate was taking place. Slab pull and far-field drivers such as ridge push were aiding in closing the distance...

crust and lithosphere extend as a result of plate boundary forces such as slab pull. Far field stresses thin the crust and lithospheric mantle, and hot asthenospheric...