Stresses that drive the plates from below: Definitions, computational path, model optimization, and error analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Bird, Peter ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a,b   Rucker, William Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RHEOLOGY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 58549088149     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005460     Document Type: Article

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