Convergent flow in a two-layer system and plateau development

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gratton, Julio ^a   Perazzo, Carlos Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VISCOSITY;

APPROXIMATE FORMULAS; LIQUID LAYER; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; TRAVELING WAVE; TWO LAYER MODEL; TWO-LAYER SYSTEMS; UPPER MANTLE;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 79955456509     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3578481     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Perazzo C.A. Gratton J. Convergent flow in a two-layer system and mountain building. Phys. Fluids 2010, 22:056603. PHFLE6, 1070-6631, 10.1063/1.3431740.
2. Fielding E. Isacks B. Barazangi M. Duncan C. How flat is Tibet?. Geology 1994, 22:163. GLGYBA, 0091-7613, 10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0163:HFIT>2.3.CO;2.
3. Ouimet W.B. Cook K.L. Building the Central Andes through axial lower crustal flow. Tectonics 2010, 29:C3010. TCTNDM, 0278-7407, 10.1029/2009TC002460.
4. Hodges K.V. Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones 2006, 268:71-90. R. D. Law, M. P. Searle, L. Godin, in edited by and (Geological Society, London, ), Vol. pp.
5. Lobkovsky L.I. Kerchman V.I. A two-level concept of plate tectonics: Application to geodynamics. Tectonophysics 1991, 199:343. TCTOAM, 0040-1951, 10.1016/0040-1951(91)90178-U.
6. Avouac J.P. Burov E.B. Erosion as a driving mechanism of intracontinental mountain growth. J. Geophys. Res. 1996, 101:17747. JGREA2, 0148-0227, 10.1029/96JB01344.
7. Royden L. Coupling and decoupling of crust and mantle in convergent orogens: Implications for strain partitioning in the crust. J. Geophys. Res., [Solid Earth] 1996, 101:17679. 10.1029/96JB00951, 1934-8843.
8. Gerbault M. Willingshofer E. Lower crust indentation or horizontal ductile flow during continental collision?. Tectonophysics 2004, 387:169. TCTOAM, 0040-1951, 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.06.012.
9. Medvedev S. Beaumont C. Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones 2006, 268:147-164. R. D. Law, M. P. Searle, L. Godin, and in edited by and (Geological Society, London, ), Vol. pp.
10. Li D. Continental lower-crustal flow: Channel flow and laminar flow. Earth Sci. Front. 2008, 15:130. 10.1016/S1872-5791(08)60065-2, 1005-2321.
11. Royden L.H. Burchfiel B.C. King R.W. Wang E. Chen Z. Shen F. Liu Y. Surface deformation and lower crustal flow in eastern Tibet. Science 1997, 276:788. SCIEAS, 0036-8075, 10.1126/science.276.5313.788.
12. Beaumont C. Jamieson R.A. Nguyen M.H. Lee B. Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation. Nature (London) 2001, 414:738. NATUAS, 0028-0836, 10.1038/414738a.
13. Shen F. Royden L.H. Burchfiel B.C. Large-scale crustal deformation of the Tibetan plateau. J. Geophys. Res. 2001, 106:6793. JGREA2, 0148-0227, 10.1029/2000JB900389.
14. Beaumont C. Jamieson R.A. Nguyen M.H. Medvedev S. Crustal channel flows: 1. Numerical models with applications to the tectonics of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen. J. Geophys. Res., [Solid Earth] 2004, 109:6406. 10.1029/2003JB002809, 0148-0227.
15. Clark M.K. Bush J.W. M. Royden L.H. Dynamic topography produced by lower crustal flow against rheological strength heterogeneities bordering the Tibetan plateau. Geophys. J. Int. 2005, 162:575. GJINEA, 0956-540X, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02580.x.
16. Godin L. Grujic D. Law R.D. Searle M.P. Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones 2006, 268:1-23. R. D. Law, M. P. Searle, L. Godin, and in edited by and (Geological Society, London, ), Vol. pp.
17. Husson L. Sempere T. Thickening the Altiplano crust by gravity-driven crustal channel flow. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2003, 30:1243. GPRLAJ, 0094-8276, 10.1029/2002GL016877.
18. Gerbault M. Martinod J. Hérail G. Possible orogeny-parallel lower crustal flow and thickening in the Central Andes. Tectonophysics 2005, 399:59. TCTOAM, 0040-1951, 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.015.
19. Medvedev S. Podladchikov Y. Handy M.R. Scheuber E. Controls on the deformation of the Central and Southern Andes (10-35° S): Insight from thin-sheet numerical modeling. The Andes: Active Subduction Orogeny 2006, 475-494. O. Oncken, G. Chong, G. Franz, P. Giese, H. Götze, V. A. Ramos, M. R. Strecker, P. Wigger, and in edited by and (Springer, Berlin, ), pp.
20. Buckmaster J.D. Viscous sheets advancing over dry beds. J. Fluid Mech. 1977, 81:735. JFLSA7, 0022-1120, 10.1017/S0022112077002328.
21. Huppert H.E. The propagation of two-dimensional and axisymmetric viscous gravity currents over a rigid horizontal surface. J. Fluid Mech. 1982, 121:43. JFLSA7, 0022-1120, 10.1017/S0022112082001797.
22. Oron A. Davis S.H. Bankoff S.G. Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films. Rev. Mod. Phys. 1997, 69:931. RMPHAT, 0034-6861, 10.1103/RevModPhys.69.931.
23. Note that there is a misprint in Eqs. (1) and (2) in Ref. 1.