Rayleigh-Taylor instability under a shear stress free top boundary condition and its relevance to removal of mantle lithosphere from beneath the Sierra Nevada
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T33A-1150. Saleeby, J., and Z. Foster (2004), Topographic response to mantle lithosphere removal in the southern Sierra Nevada region, California,Geology,
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