Heat flow, heat production, and lithospheric thermal regime in the Iberian Peninsula

Tectonophysics

Volumn 291, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 29-53

  Fernandez M ^a   Marzan I ^a   Correia, A ^b   Ramalho, E ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c Instituto Geologico e Mineiro   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLOW; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS;

SPAIN;

EID: 0032525623     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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