Analytic models for orogenic collapse

Tectonophysics

Volumn 435, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Jadamec, Margarete A ^a   Turcotte, Donald L ^a   Howell, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytic model; Erosion; Gravitational collapse; Orogenic collapse; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL THINNING; EROSION; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; PLATEAU; RHEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; WAVELENGTH;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 34147154097     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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