Bending thin lithosphere causes localized "snapping" and not distributed "crunching": Implications for abyssal hill formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2531-2534

  Buck, W Roger ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BRITTLENESS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); SHEAR STRESS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; YIELD STRESS;

ABYSSAL HILL FORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC BENDING; MOHR COULOMB FAILURE CRITERION;

TECTONICS;

ABYSSAL HILL; BENDING; DEFORMATION; FLEXURE; LITHOSPHERE; LOADING;

EID: 0031251915     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02640     Document Type: Article

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