Forces controlling the present-day state of stress in the Andes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 157-170

  Meijer, P Th ^a   Covers, R ^b   Wortel, M J R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Orogeny; Plate boundaries; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRESS; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 0030777270     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00029-0     Document Type: Article

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