Monsoon speeds up Indian plate motion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 503-510

  Iaffaldano, Giampiero ^a   Husson, Laurent ^b,c   Bunge, Hans Peter ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Himalayan erosion; Indian monsoon; Indian plate motion change; Topography evolution

Indexed keywords

COUNTER-CLOCKWISE; DYNAMIC MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; EULER POLES; FIRST-ORDER; GEODYNAMIC MODELS; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; HIMALAYAN EROSION; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN PLATE; KEY FACTORS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; MONSOON INTENSITY; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE MOTIONS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EROSION;

GEODYNAMICS; INDIAN PLATE; MONSOON; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 79953060956     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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