Passive margins getting squeezed in the mantle convection vice

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1559-1570

  Yamato, Philippe ^a   Husson, Laurent ^a,b   Becker, Thorsten W ^c   Pedoja, Kevin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

compressive passive margins; mantle convection; numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGINS; COMPRESSIVE PASSIVE MARGINS; CONVECTION MODES; GLOBAL COLLISION; MANTLE CIRCULATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; MECHANICAL BOUNDARIES; NO-SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

BELT CONVEYORS;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; UPPER MANTLE;

EID: 84890493602     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003375     Document Type: Article

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