Why has the Nazca plate slowed since the Neogene?

Shear wave reflectivity imaging of the Nazca-South America subduction zone: Stagnant slab in the mantle transition zone?

(2012) Sean Contenti et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Subduction dynamics and the origin of Andean orogeny and the Bolivian orocline

(2011) F. A. Capitanio et al.   NATURE

Constraining kinetics of metastable olivine in the Marianas slab from seismic observations and dynamic models

(2011) Javier Quinteros et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Horizontal subduction zones, convergence velocity and the building of the Andes

(2010) J. Martinod et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Viscosity in transition zone and lower mantle: Implications for slab penetration

(2010) J. Quinteros et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust

(2008) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Strong plate coupling along the Nazca–South America convergent margin

(2008) Giampiero Iaffaldano et al.   GEOLOGY

SLIM3D: A tool for three-dimensional thermomechanical modeling of lithospheric deformation with elasto-visco-plastic rheology

(2008) A.A. Popov et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

(2007) Taras V. Gerya et al.   GEOLOGY