Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 129, Issue 1-4, 1995, Pages 85-102

  Huw Davies, J ^a   von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; SLAB BREAKOFF;

EID: 0028837773     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)00237-S     Document Type: Article

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