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posted on 2019-08-20, 13:32 authored by BF Windley, WJ XiaoCenozoic ridge subduction and the resultant slab windows have been well documented worldwide [Sisson et al., 2003], especially along the western margins of North and South America [Thorkelson, Taylor, 1989]. The principal characteristics of ridge subduction, which can be used to recognise the process in ancient orogens, include: intrusion of ridge-generated magmas into a forearc in a near-trench position [Marshak, Karig, 1977]; this can be regarded as the hallmark of ridge subduction.
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Geodynamics & Tectonophysics, 2017, 8 (3), pp. 595-597Author affiliation
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