Surface topography and internal strain variation in wide hot orogens from three-dimensional analogue and two-dimensional numerical vice models

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 253, Issue , 2006, Pages 79-104

  Cruden, Alexander R ^a   Nasseri, Mohammad H B ^a   Pysklywec, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG MODEL; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646426386     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.253.01.04     Document Type: Article

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