Role of weak zone orientation in continental lithosphere extension

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-4

  van Wijk, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ASYMMETRIC RIFT STRUCTURES; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; LITHOSPHERE EXTENSIONS; THERMAL STRUCTURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; EXTENSION; LITHOSPHERE; ORIENTATION; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; SUTURE ZONE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 16344391834     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022192     Document Type: Article

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