Modelling the extension of heterogeneous hot lithosphere

Tectonophysics

Volumn 444, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 63-79

  Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^a   Corti, Giacomo ^b   Bonini, Marco ^b   Pierre Brun, Jean ^c   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a   Mauduit, Thomas ^a   Manetti, Piero ^d  

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

^b SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Backarc extension; Continental lithosphere rheology; Weakness zones

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODELING; MOHO; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 34948839897     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.08.012     Document Type: Article

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