The growth of Rayleigh-Taylor-type instabilities in the lithosphere for various rheological and density structures

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-112

  Conrad, Clinton P ^a   Molnar, Peter ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collision belts; Lithosphere deformation; Mantle convection; Orogeny; Perturbation methods; Rheology

Indexed keywords

COLLISION BELT; CONVECTION; DEFORMATION; MANTLE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0030795223     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb00939.x     Document Type: Article

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