Subduction-channel model of prism accretion, melange formation, sediment subduction, and subduction erosion at convergent plate margins: 1. Background and description

Mark Cloos1, Ronald L. Shreve2
1Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
2Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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