Can the thermal thickness of the continental lithosphere be estimated from Magsat data?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 19-29

  Hamoudi, M ^a   Cohen, Y ^b   Achache, J ^b  

^a Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Heat flow; Long wavelength; Magnetic anomalies; Magnetization variations; Paleozoic; Proterozoic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010541783     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00166-2     Document Type: Article

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