The influence of a stratified rheology on the flexural response of the lithosphere to (un)loading by extensional faulting

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 721-735

  Ter Voorde, M ^a   Van Balen, R T ^a   Bertotti, G ^a   Cloetingh, S A P L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FLEXURE; LITHOSPHERE; RHEOLOGY; UNLOADING;

EID: 0032427565     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00629.x     Document Type: Article

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