Numerical modeling of frontal and basal accretion at collisional margins

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Selzer, Cornelia ^a,b   Buiter, Susanne J H ^c   Pfiffner, O Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GEOTEST AG   (Switzerland)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COLLISION ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LITHOSPHERE; NAPPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ABIES ALBA;

EID: 50949126660     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002169     Document Type: Article

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