Strength of the lithosphere and strain localisation in the Baikal rift

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 523-529

  Petit, Carole ^a   Burov, Evguene ^a   Tiberi, Christel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Baikal rift; effective elastic thickness; lithosphere; strain localisation

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRAIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EFFECTIVE ELASTIC THICKNESS (EET); LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY (LAB); STRAIN LOCALIZATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ELASTICITY; LITHOSPHERE; MOHO; OLIGOCENE; PARTIAL MELTING; PLEISTOCENE; RIFT ZONE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 43449101464     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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