Abstract: Thermal Softening Induced Strain Localization, a Possible Mechanism of Lithospheric Scale Shear Zone Formation and Subduction Initiation (AGU Fall Meeting 2018)

Thermal Softening Induced Strain Localization, a Possible Mechanism of Lithospheric Scale Shear Zone Formation and Subduction Initiation

Daniel Kiss¹, Lorenzo G. Candioti¹, Thibault Duretz^1,2, Yuri Podladchikov³ and Stefan M Schmalholz¹, (1)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)Université de Rennes, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France, (3)University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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