Decoupling during continental collision and intra-plate deformation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 435-444

  Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^a   Willingshofer, Ernst ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Buckling; Continental collision; Decoupling; Intraplate deformation; Topography

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODELLING; COLLISIONAL SYSTEM; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL LEVELS; DECOUPLING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOMINANT DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FORELAND BASIN; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION; LATERAL STRENGTH; LITHOSPHERIC MODELS; MODEL DOMAINS; MOUNTAIN BELTS; MOUNTAIN BUILDING; STRAIN LOCALISATION; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; TRIANGULAR SHAPES; VERTICAL STRAIN;

DEFORMATION; GEOMETRY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

BUCKLING;

ANALOG MODEL; BUCKLING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRAIN PARTITIONING; SUBSIDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EID: 79955112801     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.028     Document Type: Article

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