Sentence examples for slab pull from inspiring English sources

The subducting slab undergoes mineralogical changes as it descends, resulting in slab pull that eventually hauls one section of lithosphere capped by continental crust to the subduction zone.

However, for the slab pull force, spin motion can be excited.

But he was more cautious about the group's finding that "slab pull" from subduction isn't as important a factor.

The strong heterogeneity observed at both depths and changes in the stress regime from slab pull to extension may be an indication of a doubleWadati-Benioff zone.

Therefore, these earthquakes occurred not along the plate boundary, but within the subducting Indian Plate, reflecting its negative buoyancy or slab pull.

In the same manner, this stress regime, which changes from a simple slab pull to extension, might be interpreted by the presence of a DWBZ.

McGinty et al. (2000) interpreted that the stress state was caused by the slab pull effect from the deeper part of the subducting plate.

The stress field in the eastern part may be caused by a slab pull force induced from the deeper part of the subducted plate.