Indentation of a continent with a built-in thickness change: Experiment and nature

Tectonophysics

Volumn 320, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 243-270

  Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^a,d   Bonini, Marco ^b   Medvedev, Sergei ^a   Boccaletti, Mario ^c   Talbot, Christopher J ^a   Koyi, Hemin ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Extended Thin Sheet Approximation (ETSA); Indentation tectonics; Lateral escape; Oblique orogens; Transversal crustal thickness variation

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKENING; OBLIQUITY; OROGENY; PLATE CONVERGENCE;

EID: 0033672451     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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