Anomalous uplift of the Apennines and subsidence of the Adriatic: The result of active mantle flow?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Shaw, Malcolm ^a   Pysklywec, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TOMOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

MANTLE FLOW; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; THERMOMECHANICS; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ADRIATIC SEA; APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547978206     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028337     Document Type: Article

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