How to make a rift wide

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1753, 1999, Pages 671-693

  Buck, W Roger ^a   Lavier, Luc L ^a   Poliakov, Alexei N B ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Boudinage; Buoyancy; Lithosphere; Necking; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347600414     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0348     Document Type: Article

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