Transition from passive to active rifting: Relative importance of asthenospheric doming and passive extension of the lithosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B6, 2001, Pages 11271-11291

  Huismans, Ritske S ^a,c   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^b   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOME; LITHOSPHERE; RIFTING;

EID: 0034936791     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900424     Document Type: Article

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