Mountain building and mantle dynamics

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-93

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Becker, Thorsten W ^b   Conrad, Clinton P ^c   Husson, Laurent ^d,e  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; FAULTING;

COMPRESSIONAL FORCE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; FRICTIONAL RESISTANCE; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; MANTLE CIRCULATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; MOUNTAIN BUILDING;

DRAG;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUILDING; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN; OROGENY; SUBDUCTION; THRUST FAULT;

EID: 84881231478     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012TC003176     Document Type: Article

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