Rheology and strength of the lithosphere

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1402-1443

  Burov, Evgene B ^a  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

Author keywords

Elastic thickness; Mechanics of the lithosphere; Rheology; Yield stress envelopes

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE STRENGTH; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUST-MANTLE COUPLING; CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY; CRUSTAL STRENGTH; DATA SOURCE; ELASTIC THICKNESS; FIRST-ORDER MODELS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LARGE PARTS; LARGE-SCALE DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC; LOADING CONDITION; LOCAL SCALE; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; LONG-TERM STRENGTH; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MOUNTAIN RANGES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PLATE FLEXURE; RHEOLOGICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL SCALE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; THERMO-MECHANICAL; THERMOMECHANICAL MODEL; TIME-SCALES; UPPER CRUST; YIELD STRESS ENVELOPES;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; GEODYNAMICS; MODELS; OLIVINE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; TIME MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

RHEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OLIVINE; PASSIVE MARGIN; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONICS; THERMOMECHANICS;

EID: 79960386165     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2011.05.008     Document Type: Review

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