Active surface deformation and sub-lithospheric processes in the western Mediterranean constrained by numerical models

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 823-826

  Pérouse, Eugénie ^a   Vernant, Philippe ^a   Chéry, Jean ^a   Reilinger, Robert ^b   McClusky, Simon ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACES; ALBORAN SEA; COMBINED EFFECT; CRUSTAL PROCESS; DYNAMIC MODELING; DYNAMIC PROCESS; ELASTIC PLATE; ELASTIC PLATE MODELS; EURASIA; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC PROCESS; MODELING STUDIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; RELATIVE MOTION; SMALL AREA; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TIME-PERIODS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; TRACTION (FRICTION);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; EURASIAN PLATE; GPS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODELING; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77958099004     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30963.1     Document Type: Article

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