Plate convergence in the Indo-Pacific region

• 作 者: SUN Weidong ZHANG Lipeng LIAO
• 机 构: CenterofDeepSeaResearch,LaboratoryforMarineMineralResources,UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences
• 出 处: 海洋湖沼学报(英文)
• 发表日期: 2020年4期
• 关键词: plate tectonics subduction initiation drifting history Pacific plate Indian plat
• 基金项目: the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42020203,XDB18020102),the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFC0600408),the Taishan Scholar Program of Sha

The Indo-Pacific convergence region is the best target to solve the teo remaining challenges of the plate tectonics theory,i.e.,subduction initiation and the driving force of plate tectonics.Recent studies proposed that the Izu-Bonin subduction initiation