Epeirogenic transients related to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California, part I: Implications of thermomechanical modeling

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1286-1309

  Saleeby, J ^a   Le Pourhiet, L ^b   Saleeby, Z ^a   Gurnis, M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHOLITH; DELAMINATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MICROPLATE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMIC DATA; SUBSIDENCE; THERMOMECHANICS; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; TULARE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873511212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00746.1     Document Type: Article

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