
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Harper, J.F. 
T1  - Part 6. Present plate boundary seismic, volcanic and kinematic processes: Subduction-zone vortices
JF  - Exploration Geophysics
JO  - Explor. Geophys.
Y1  - 1975
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SP  - 79
EP  - 80
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/EG975079 
N2  - Sinking slabs of lithosphere must push the asthenosphere if they pull the plates. The resulting flow in the asthenosphere then goes rapidly round the ends of a slab, pulling the lithosphere with it. The motion can be analyzed with the help of Hele?Shaw's mathematical analogy between viscous flow in a thin layer of fluid and classical two-dimensional irrotational flow. 
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