Global strength and elastic thickness of the lithosphere

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 90-91, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-57

  Tesauro, Magdala ^a,b   Kaban, Mikhail K ^a,c   Cloetingh, Sierd A P L ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IPE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Effective elastic thickness; Global model; Lithospheric strength

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE ELASTIC THICKNESS; ELASTIC THICKNESS; GLOBAL MODELS; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC MODELS; PROTEROZOIC; SURFACE PROCESS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SEISMICITY; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANISM;

ACHAEA;

EID: 84861774243     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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