Thin-plate and thin-shell finite-element programs for forward dynamic modeling of plate deformation and faulting

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 383-394

  Bird, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Neotectonics; Plate tectonics; Tectonophysics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LITHOSPHERE; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONOPHYSICS;

EID: 0032765856     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(98)00142-3     Document Type: Article

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