On the relation between trench migration, seafloor age, and the strength of the subducting lithosphere

Modeling the Dynamics of Subducting Slabs

(2008) Magali I. Billen   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs

(2008) Benjun Wu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tethyan closure, Andean orogeny, and westward drift of the Pacific Basin

(2008) Laurent Husson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Trench migration, net rotation and slab–mantle coupling

(2008) F. Funiciello et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Global trench migration velocities and slab migration induced upper mantle volume fluxes: Constraints to find an Earth reference frame based on minimizing viscous dissipation

(2008) W.P. Schellart et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Slab stiffness control of trench motion: Insights from numerical models

(2008) E. Di Giuseppe et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Fault-induced seismic anisotropy by hydration in subducting oceanic plates

(2008) Manuele Faccenda et al.   NATURE

Evidence of lower-mantle slab penetration phases in plate motions

(2008) Saskia Goes et al.   NATURE

Subduction zone trench migration: Slab driven or overriding-plate-driven?

(2008) W.P. Schellart   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Pacific trench motions controlled by the asymmetric plate configuration

(2008) Thorsten J. Nagel et al.   TECTONICS

Subduction dynamics as revealed by trench migration

(2008) Serge Lallemand et al.   TECTONICS

Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

(2007) Taras V. Gerya et al.   GEOLOGY

Plate tectonics on the early Earth: Limitations imposed by strength and buoyancy of subducted lithosphere

(2007) Jeroen van Hunen et al.   LITHOS