Lateral variations of thermo-mechanical properties in the Tyrrhenian-northern Apennine region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 300, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 143-158

  Gualteri, Luca ^a,c   Bertotti, Giovanni ^b   Cloetingh, Sierd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental rifting; Effective elastic thickness; Focal depth; Lithospheric strength profiles; Northern Apennines

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRENGTH; TECTONICS; THERMOMECHANICS;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032585448     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00238-8     Document Type: Article

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