Crustal compensation during mountain-building

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3009-3012

  Zhong, S ^a   Zuber, M T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; VISCOSITY; GEODESY; LITHOLOGY;

CRUSTAL COMPENSATION;

GEOPHYSICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; ISOSTASY; MOHO; OROGENY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA;

CENTRAL ASIA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; OROGENIC BELTS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0034664424     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011242     Document Type: Article

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