A new multilayered model for intraplate stress-induced differential subsidence of faulted lithosphère, applied to rifted basins

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 938-954

  Van Balen, R T ^a   Podladchikov, Y Y ^a   Cloetingh, S A P L ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; LITHOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; IN-PLANE STRESS; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; FLEXURE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; RIFT ZONE; STRESS; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 0032419484     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900003     Document Type: Article

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