Mountain belt growth inferred from histories of past plate convergence: A new tectonic inverse problem

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 516-523

  Iaffaldano, Giampiero ^a   Bunge, Hans Peter ^a   Bücker, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andean paleotopography; mountain building; numerical inversion; plate convergence

Indexed keywords

MOUNTAIN BELTS; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLATE CONVERGENCE;

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); INVERSE PROBLEMS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; BELT; DIFFERENTIATION; INVERSE PROBLEM; MODELING; MOUNTAIN; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34447263743     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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