Evaluating the role of preexisting weaknesses and topographic distributions in the Indo-Asian collision by use of a thin-shell numerical model

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 527-530

  Kong, X ^a   Yin, A ^a   Harrison, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODELS; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; GEODYNAMIC MODELING; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THIN VISCOUS SHEET; VELOCITY FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; FAULTING;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXTRUSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDIAN PLATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TOPOGRAPHY; GEODYNAMICS; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TERTIARY; THIN SHELL MODEL;

ASIA;

EID: 0030778767     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0527:ETROPW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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