Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-42

  Gurnis, Michael ^a   Turner, Mark ^a   Zahirovic, Sabin ^b   DiCaprio, Lydia ^a,b   Spasojevic, Sonja ^a   Müller, R Dietmar ^b   Boyden, James ^b   Seton, Maria ^b   Manea, Vlad Constantin ^a   Bower, Dan J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geodynamics; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RECONSTRUCTION; EULER POLES; FUNCTION OF TIME; GEOMETRIC DATA; NATIVE STORAGE; NESTED HIERARCHY; OPEN-SOURCE; XML-BASED FILES;

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; GEODYNAMICS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; REPAIR; TECTONICS; TOPOLOGY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ALGORITHM; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MODELING; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE TECTONICS; POLYGON; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 82455187951     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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