What controls thickness of sediments and lithospheric deformation at a pull-apart basin?
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A comparison of lithospheric thickness models
Article history: Received 19 April 2016 Received in revised form 28 July 2016 Accepted 1 August 2016 Available online xxxx The outermost layer of the solid Earth consists of relatively rigid plates whose horizontal motions are well described by the rules of plate tectonics. Yet, the thickness of these plates is poorly constrained, with different methods giving widely discrepant results. Here a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0091-7613
DOI: 10.1130/g22158.1