Patterns of stress and strain rate in southern Africa

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Bird, Peter ^a   Ben Avraham, Zvi ^b,c   Schubert, Gerald ^a,d   Andreoli, Marco ^e,f   Viola, Giulio ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NECSA   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; STRAIN; STRESS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; SOMALIA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANDERSONIA;

EID: 33847306361     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003882     Document Type: Article

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