Crustal Ductility and Early Continental Tectonophysics

Archean Geodynamics and Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 115-130

  Bailey, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earth Crust; Earth Mantle; Geodynamics; Geology, Stratigraphic Archaean; Geology, Structural; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

DUCTILITY; GEODYNAMICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); PRODUCTIVITY; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ARCHAEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; EARTH CRUSTS; EARTH MANTLE; EFFECTIVE VISCOSITY; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; THERMAL ACTIVATION;

TECTONICS;

EID: 84952879573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/164GM09     Document Type: Chapter

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