A new thermal and rheological model of the European lithosphere

Tectonophysics

Volumn 476, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 478-495

  Tesauro, Magdala ^a,b   Kaban, Mikhail K ^a,c   Cloetingh, Sierd A P L ^b  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Europe; Rheological model; Strength map; Thermal lithosphere; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

EUROPE; RHEOLOGICAL MODEL; STRENGTH MAP; THERMAL LITHOSPHERE; THERMAL MODEL;

GEOPHYSICS; LITHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); TOMOGRAPHY;

RHEOLOGY;

BASIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PANNONIAN BASIN; RUSSIAN PLATFORM; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 70349784440     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.022     Document Type: Article

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