Gravity anomaly and flexural model: Constraints on the structure beneath the Peruvian Andes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 255, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 99-109

  Fan, Guangwei ^a   Wallace, Terry C ^a   Beck, Susan L ^a   Chase, Clement G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXURAL MODEL; GRAVITY MODELLING; LITHOSPHERE STRUCTURE; MOHO; UNDERTHRUSTING;

BRAZIL, BRAZILIAN SHIELD; PERU, ANDES;

EID: 0029774535     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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