Thermally softened continental extensional zones (arcs and rifts)as precursors to thickened orogenic belts

Tectonophysics

Volumn 332, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 115-141

  Thompson, A B ^a   Schulmann, K ^b   Jezek, J ^b   Tolar, V ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Continental extension; Continental thickening; Lithosphere rheology; Orogenic root; Prograde metamorphism

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OROGENIC BELT; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; THERMOMECHANICS;

EID: 0035001351     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00252-3     Document Type: Article

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