Continental rifting parallel to ancient collisional belts: An effect of the mechanical anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 185, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 199-210

  Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Vauchez, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Atlantic ocean; Deformation; Mantle plumes; Olivine; Petrofabrics; Plate tectonics; reactivation; Rheology; Rifting; Transform faults; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MANTLE PLUME; OLIVINE; PETROFABRIC; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 0035048846     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00350-2     Document Type: Article

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