Role of pre-rift rheology in kinematics of extensional basin formation: constraints from thermomechanical models of Mediterranean and intracratonic basins

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 793-807

  Cloetingh, S ^a   van Wees, J D ^a   van der Beek, P A ^a   Spadini, G ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

basin modelling; extensional basins; forward modelling; rheology

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN MODELLING; EXTENSIONAL BASIN; EXTENSIONAL BASINS; KINEMATICS; RHEOLOGY; THERMOMECHANICAL MODELS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0029509135     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(95)98848-Y     Document Type: Article

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