Testing hypotheses on plate-driving mechanisms with global lithosphere models including topography, thermal structure, and faults

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 10115-10129

  Bird, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY ANOMALY; LITHOSPHERE MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0032503190     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00198     Document Type: Article

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