Stress and strain during fault-controlled lithospheric extension - Insights from numerical experiments

Tectonophysics

Volumn 415, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 39-55

  Henk, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact element; Finite element model; Half graben; Lower crustal flow; Subsidence history

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33644974237     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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