Figure 6: Absolute plate motions and trench retreat estimates. Figure 7: Conceptual model of the formation of overpressured sub-slab mantle dynamically supporting flat slabs in a top view of the 100 ...
Why do the Andes exist? Why is it not a place of lowlands or narrow seas? Wouter Schellart, a geophysicist at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has been pondering these questions for more than a ...