Thermo-mechanical controls on the mode of continental collision in the SE Carpathians (Romania)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 57-76

  Cloetingh, S A P L ^a   Burov, E ^b   Matenco, L ^a   Toussaint, G ^b   Bertotti, G ^a   Andriessen, P A M ^a   Wortel, M J R ^c   Spakman, W ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Continental collision; Tectonic topography; Thermo mechanical modelling; Unstable subduction

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THERMOMECHANICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 0942278102     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00645-9     Document Type: Article

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