Formation mechanism of steep convergent intracontinental margins: Insights from numerical modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2000-2005

  Chen, Lin ^a,b   Gerya, Taras V ^b   Zhang, Zhong Jie ^a   Aitken, Alan ^c   Li, Zhong Hai ^d   Liang, Xiao Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

intracontinental convergence; numerical modeling; steep margin

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; FORMATION MECHANISM; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; INTRACONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STEEP MARGIN; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LITHOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SICHUAN BASIN; XIZANG;

EID: 84879896441     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50446     Document Type: Article

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