Lithospheric cooling and thickening as a basin forming mechanism

Tectonophysics

Volumn 495, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 184-194

  Holt, Peter J ^a   Allen, Mark B ^a   van Hunen, Jeroen ^a   Bjørnseth, Hans Morten ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Basin; Lithosphere; North Africa; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AVERAGE VALUES; BASIN; BEST ESTIMATES; COOLING MODEL; CRUSTAL COMPOSITION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FORMING MECHANISM; FORWARD MODELLING; FORWARD MODELS; ISLAND ARC; LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALAEOZOIC; PLATE COOLING; SUBSIDENCE CURVE;

STRETCHING; TECTONICS;

SUBSIDENCE;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; COOLING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PALEOZOIC; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

BERKINE BASIN; KUFRA BASIN; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 78649741826     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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