Global tectonic and climatic control of mean elevation of continents, and Phanerozoic sea level change

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 524-531

  Zhang, Youxue ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Continental crust thickness; Continental height; Coupling between global tectonic and climatic systems; Eustasy; Freeboard; Hypsometry; Ocean depth; Sea level

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CONTROL; CONTINENTAL CRUST THICKNESS; CONTINENTAL HEIGHT; EUTASY; FREEBOARD; HYPSOMETRY; OCEAN DEPTH;

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA LEVEL; TECTONICS;

GEOPHYSICS;

ELEVATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONICS;

EID: 24144451306     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.015     Document Type: Article

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