Evolution of orogenic wedges and continental plateaux: Insights from crustal thermal-mechanical models overlying subducting mantle lithosphere

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-51

  Vanderhaeghe, O ^a   Medvedev, S ^a   Fullsack, P ^a   Beaumont, C ^a   Jamieson, R A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continental deformation; Crustal deformation; Isostasy; Orogeny; Radioactivity; Topography; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; ISOSTASY; OROGENY; RADIOACTIVITY; RHEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOMECHANICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037394753     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01861.x     Document Type: Article

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