Buckling versus folding: Importance of viscoelasticity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2641-2644

  Schmalholz, S M ^a   Podladchikov, Yu ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUCKLING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; STRAIN; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISCOELASTICITY; DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FOLDING; THIN PLATE THEORY; DEBORAH NUMBERS; DEFORMATION MODES; DOMINANT WAVELENGTH; LAYER PARALLEL COMPRESSION; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VISCOELASTIC LAYERS;

GEOPHYSICS; VISCOELASTICITY;

BUCKLING; FOLDING; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0033396954     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900412     Document Type: Article

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