Quasi-adiabatic instabilities associated with necking processes of an elasto-viscoplastic lithosphere

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 89-102

  Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithosphere; Mantle; Necking

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE;

EID: 0034110190     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00136-3     Document Type: Article

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