Dynamic Processes in Extensional and Compressional Settings: The Dynamics of Continental Breakup and Extension

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 335-376

  Buck, W R ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Crust; Dike; Flexure; Isostasy; Lithosphere; Magmatism; Normal fault; Rifting; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882831474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00110-3     Document Type: Chapter

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