Analogue modelling of continental collision: Influence of plate coupling on mantle lithosphere subduction, crustal deformation and surface topography

Tectonophysics

Volumn 484, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 87-102

  Luth, Stefan ^a   Willingshofer, Ernst ^a   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^a   Cloetingh, Sierd ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alps; Analogue modelling; Continental collision; Lithospheric coupling; Mantle lithosphere subduction; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELLING; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; LITHOSPHERIC COUPLING; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; PYRENEES;

DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKENING; LITHOSPHERE; MODELING; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION;

ALPS; PYRENEES;

EID: 77649181426     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.08.043     Document Type: Article

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