Structural styles of mountain building: Controls of lithospheric rheologic stratification and extensional inheritance

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Jammes, Suzon ^a   Huismans, Ritske S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OROGENY; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORWARD MODELING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN REGION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; PYRENEES; ZAGROS;

EID: 84868143062     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009376     Document Type: Article

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