Modelling the lithospheric rheology control on the Cretaceous rifting in West Antarctica

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 360-366

  Bonini, Marco ^a   Corti, Giacomo ^a   Del Ventisette, Chiara ^a   Manetti, Piero ^a,b   Mulugeta, Genene ^c   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^c  

^a SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRATON; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; STRAIN; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 34548734687     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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