Can we understand structural and tectonic processes and their products without appeal to a complete mechanics?

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 1071-1088

  Fletcher, Raymond C ^a   Pollard, David D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL PROCESSES; TECTONIC PROCESSES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STRAIN; STRESSES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EID: 0032692979     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(99)00056-5     Document Type: Article

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