Gravity anomalies, flexure and the elastic thickness structure of the India-Eurasia collisional system

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 732-750

  Jordan, T A ^a   Watts, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elastic thickness; Flexure; Isostasy; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL SYSTEM; ELASTIC THICKNESS; FLEXURE; GRAVITY ANOMALIES;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTICITY; GRADIENT METHODS; GRAVITATIONAL PROSPECTING; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FLEXURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; ISOSTASY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; WORLD;

EID: 24344464938     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.036     Document Type: Article

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