Validity of the thin viscous sheet approximation in models of continental collision

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Garthwaite, Matthew C ^a   Houseman, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; POWER LAW; STRAIN RATE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79951497205     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007770     Document Type: Article

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