The thermal structure of collisional orogens as a response to accretion, erosion, and radiogenic heating

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 15287-15302

  Huerta, Audrey D ^a   Royden, Leigh H ^a   Hodges, Kip V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; COLLISION ZONE; EROSION; OROGENY; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032503898     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00593     Document Type: Article

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