Folding of Europa's icy lithosphere: an analysis of viscous-plastic buckling and subsequent topographic relaxation

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2259-2269

  Dombard, Andrew J ^a,b   McKinnon, William B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Folding; Jovian satellites; tectonics

Indexed keywords

ICY LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC FOLDING; VISCOUS-PLASTIC BUCKLING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; BUCKLING; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EUROPA; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOLDING; HEAT FLOW; ICE COVER; JUPITER; LITHOSPHERE; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOPLASTICITY;

EID: 33645129871     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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