Narrow rifts versus wide rifts: Inferences for the mechanics of rifting from laboratory experiments

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

Volumn 357, Issue 1753, 1999, Pages 695-712

  Brun, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Analogue models; Brittle ductile coupling; Gravity spreading; Lithosphere extension; Necking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347600415     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0349     Document Type: Article

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