Thermal localization as a potential mechanism to rift cratons

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 186, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 125-137

  Lu, Gang ^a,b   Kaus, Boris J P ^b,c   Zhao, Liang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithospheric thinning; North China Craton; Numerical modeling; Thermal localization

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BUOYANCY; COLD REGIONS; CONTINENTAL RIFT; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; HIGH VISCOSITIES; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; LOCALIZED DEFORMATIONS; MANTLE RHEOLOGY; NORTH CHINA CRATON; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; PRECAMBRIAN; ROOT MATERIAL; SEMI-ANALYTICAL METHODS; SHEAR LOCALIZATIONS; THERMAL LOCALIZATION; THERMAL STATE;

BUOYANCY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

VISCOSITY;

BUOYANCY; CRATON; DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RHEOLOGY; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; VISCOPLASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 79957806771     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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