Samovar: A thermomechanical code for modeling of geodynamic processes in the lithosphere-application to basin evolution

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 477-497

  Elesin, Yuriy ^a   Gerya, Taras ^b   Artemieva, Irina M ^a   Thybo, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Basin analysis; Geodynamic modeling; Peierls creep; Viscoelastoplastic rheology

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOELASTICITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649906106     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-010-0215-1     Document Type: Article

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