%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Regard, V.
%A Faccenna, C.
%A Bellier, O.
%A Martinod, Joseph
%T Laboratory experiments of slab break-off and slab dip reversal : insight into the Alpine Oligocene reorganization
%D 2008
%L fdi:010042704
%G ENG
%J Terra Nova
%@ 0954-4879
%M ISI:000257800500003
%N 4
%P 267-273
%R 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00815.x
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010042704
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2008/08/010042704.pdf
%V 20
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X We present laboratory experiments to study the consequence of the rupture of a subducting slab on the deep geometry of the subduction zone. In our experiments, slab break-off occurs after the entrance of buoyant material at trench causing a slowing down of the subduction and producing an increase of the shortening rate and a transient episode of subduction dip reversal. We discuss the potential application of these processes to the recent collisional evolution of the Alps proposing that the rupture of the slab produced a reorganization of the belt with a transition from one sided to a doubly vergent orogen.
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