Temperature control of continental lithosphere elastic thickness, Te vs Vs

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 539-548

  Hyndman, R D ^a,b   Currie, C A ^c   Mazzotti, S ^a,b   Frederiksen, A ^d  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

effective elastic thickness; lithosphere; rheology; Te; temperature; Vs tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERES; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOURS; DEPTH PROFILES; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC THICKNESS; ESTIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGICAL TIMES; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUSTS; MODEL TEMPERATURES; NORTH AMERICA; STRESS THRESHOLDS; TE; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TEMPERATURE INDICATORS; UPPER MANTLES; VS TOMOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLLOIDS; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY; WATER CONTENT; YIELD STRESS;

TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; RHEOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL REGIME; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 58149457338     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.023     Document Type: Article

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