Comparing thin-sheet models with 3-D multilayer models for continental collision

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-33

  Lechmann, S M ^a   May, D A ^b   Kaus, B J P ^b,c   Schmalholz, S M ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: compressional; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Numerical approximations and analysis; Numerical solutions

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; COLLISION ZONE; COMPRESSIONAL; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; CONTINENT COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; DEPTH-PROFILE; DIFFERENT PROCESS; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INDENTERS; LINEAR VISCOUS; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; LOWER CRUST; LOWER MANTLE; MASS FLOW; MULTILAYER MODELS; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POWER-LAW; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; THIN VISCOUS SHEET; UPPER CRUST; UPPER MANTLE; VELOCITY FIELD; VISCOUS DEFORMATION;

BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INDENTATION; LITHOLOGY; MULTILAYERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; BUCKLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOLDING; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052963104     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05164.x     Document Type: Article

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