Forces driving continental collision: Reconciling indentation and mantle subduction tectonics

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 699-702

  Ellis, Susan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONVECTIVE HEATING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; ENDMEMBERS; INDENTERS; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; PRIMARY CONTROL; EURASIA;

DEFORMATION;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONVERGENCE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; DEFORMATION; INDENTATION;

EURASIA; INDIA;

EID: 0030475555     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0699:FDCCRI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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