Tethys: Lithospheric thickness and heat flux from flexurally supported topography at Ithaca Chasma

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Giese, Bernd ^a   Wagner, Roland ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^b   Helfenstein, Paul ^c   Thomas, Peter C ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ELASTIC PLATE; FLEXURAL UPLIFT; LITHOSPHERE;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

FORMATION MECHANISM; HEAT FLUX; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PLANETARY LANDFORM; TETHYS; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EID: 38549106123     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031467     Document Type: Article

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