Dynamic causes for the opening of the Baikal Rift Zone: A numerical modelling approach

Tectonophysics

Volumn 351, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 91-117

  Polyansky, O P ^a  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Baikal Rift Zone; Plate; Strain

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFT ZONE; STRAIN; STRESS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0036320771     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00127-0     Document Type: Article

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