Limit of channel flow in orogenic plateaux

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 328-332

  Rey, Patrice F ^a   Teyssier, Christian ^b   Whitney, Donna L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; VISCOSITY;

COUPLED THERMO-MECHANICAL; EXTRUSION VELOCITY; LOW VISCOSITY; LOWER CRUST; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SHOW THROUGH; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CHANNEL FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CHANNEL FLOW; EROSION; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; RHEOLOGY; UPLIFT; VISCOSITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79960205948     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L114.1     Document Type: Article

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