Controls of lithospheric structure and plate kinematics on rift architecture and evolution: An experimental modeling of the Baikal rift

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Corti, Giacomo ^a   Calignano, Elisa ^b   Petit, Carole ^c,d   Sani, Federico ^b  

^a SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; LAKES; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ANALOG MODELS; BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION; CRATONIC KEELS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; FAULT ARCHITECTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; LAKE BAIKAL; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC RHEOLOGY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODEL DEFORMATIONS; MODEL RESULTS; PLATE KINEMATICS; STRESS FIELD; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

ARCHITECTURE;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOCAL MECHANISM; KINEMATICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

LAKE BAIKAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 79959770710     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002871     Document Type: Article

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