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slab rollback: a standalone construct

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Tectonics

backward migration of a subducting slab hinge and trench toward the ocean, which stretches the overriding plate and shapes retreating subduction boundaries.

In tectonics, slab rollback refers to backward migration of a subducting slab hinge and trench toward the ocean, which stretches the overriding plate and shapes retreating subduction boundaries. This meaning comes from Royden (1993) in Tectonics.[1]

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hinge2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs migration3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs plate1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Royden, L. H. (1993). Evolution of retreating subduction boundaries formed during continental collision. Tectonics, 12(3), 629-638. https://doi.org/10.1029/92tc02641

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