Horizontal movements in the eastern Barents Sea constrained by numerical models and plate reconstructions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1376-1389

  Buiter, Susanne J H ^a   Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Barents sea; Basininversion; Finite element model; Novaya Zemlya; Plate reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOLDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARKHANGELSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; BARENTS SEA; EURASIA; NOVAYA ZEMLYA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 36349005255     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03595.x     Document Type: Article

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