The lithosphere under stress

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1753, 1999, Pages 901-915

  White, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastic thickness; Lithosphere definitions; Mantle temperature; Plate model; Rheology; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346338510     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0357     Document Type: Article

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