Stability of a frictional, cohesive layer on a viscous substratum: Variational formulation and asymptotic solution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 17795-17811

  Leroy, Y M ^a   Triantafyllidis, N ^b  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FRICTION; OVERBURDEN; SUBSTRATUM; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0001276887     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb01340     Document Type: Article

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