From passive continental margin to mountain belt: Insights from analytical and numerical models and application to Taiwan

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 235-251

  Kaus, Boris J P ^a,b   Steedman, Clare ^b   Becker, Thorsten W ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element technique; Lithosphere deformation; Mantle lithosphere interaction; Passive continental margin; Subduction; Surface processes; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DOMES; EROSION; LANDFORMS; MECHANISMS; MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACES; TECTONICS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMOELECTRICITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUE; LITHOSPHERE DEFORMATION; MANTLE/LITHOSPHERE INTERACTION; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SUBDUCTION; SURFACE PROCESSES; TAIWAN;

DEFORMATION;

BELT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 55649106561     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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