Flexural rigidity of Fennoscandia inferred from the postglacial uplift

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 596-608

  Fjeldskaar, Willy ^a  

^a Rogaland Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXURAL RIGIDITY; ISOSTASY; LITHOSPHERE; PALAEOSHORELINE TILTING; POSTGLACIAL UPLIFT;

EUROPE, FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 0031411444     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC00813     Document Type: Article

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