A bound on the viscosity of the Tibetan crust from the horizontality of palaeolake shorelines

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 44-56

  England, Philip C ^a   Walker, Richard T ^a   Fu, Bihong ^b   Floyd, Michael A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elastic thickness; Palaeoshorelines; Rheology; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC THICKNESS; GPS MEASUREMENTS; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MEASUREMENTS OF; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PALAEOSHORELINES; TIBET;

EARTHQUAKES; RHEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

LAKES;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ELASTICITY; GPS; LAKE; LOWER CRUST; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RHEOLOGY; SHORELINE; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; VISCOSITY;

CHINA; XIZANG;

COLOCASIA ESCULENTA;

EID: 84881545499     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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