Continental plate collision: Unstable vs. stable slab dynamics

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-36

  Toussaint, Gisèle ^a   Burov, Evgene ^a   Jolivet, Laurent ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Modeling; Orogens; Rheology; Subduction

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHIC CHANGES; THERMOMECHANICAL MODELS;

BRITTLENESS; DUCTILITY; ELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

GEOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; THERMOMECHANICS;

EID: 1142293181     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19883.1     Document Type: Article

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