Taiwan mountain building: Insights from 2-D thermomechanical modelling of a rheologically stratified lithosphere

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 307-326

  Yamato, P ^a   Mouthereau, Frederic ^b   Burov, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Mechanics, theory, and modelling; Rheology: Crust and lithosphere

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; MODELING; OROGENY; RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 58149204218     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03977.x     Document Type: Article

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