Ductile crustal flow in Europe's lithosphere

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 254-265

  Tesauro, Magdala ^a,b   Burov, Evgene B ^c   Kaban, Mikhail K ^a,d   Cloetingh, Sierd A P L ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^d IPE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Crustal rheology; Ductile flow; Strength

Indexed keywords

BASIN AREA; CARPATHIANS; CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY; CRUSTAL STRENGTH; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DENSITY DATA; DUCTILE FLOW; ENTIRE SYSTEM; FLOW MODEL; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; GRAVITY DRIVEN FLOW; GRAVITY THEORY; HORIZONTAL STRESS; INDUCED STRAIN; LATE STAGE; LATERAL VARIATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC ANISOTROPY; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; LOW VISCOSITY ZONE; MOUNTAIN BELTS; NEW HIGH; OROGENS; PLATE THICKNESS; STRENGTH; STRESS TRANSMISSION; VELOCITY VECTORS; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

CHANNEL FLOW; ELASTICITY; GRAVITATION; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

STRAIN RATE;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GRAVITY FIELD; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MASS TRANSFER; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; STRENGTH; STRESS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EID: 80855138218     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.055     Document Type: Article

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