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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

lithosphere, the downward slab pull force may exceed the strength of the slab at some time and location, and necking of the slab initiates. The positive...

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

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...

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...

Tornquist Ocean along its northern margin. Avalonia's motion was related to slab pull created by the subduction of the Iapetus Ocean beneath the margin of Laurentia...

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...

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

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

and soap between the fibres of the fabric to pull-out the dirt. The slabs to wash the clothes were slabs of natural stone chosen to present a fine and...