Thermal structure of oceanic and continental lithosphere

2005/04/09 by D MCKENZIE, Dan McKenzie, J JACKSON +3 · 896 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Asthenosphere #Collision zone #Continental margin #Convergent boundary #Craton #Crust #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geophysics #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Intraplate earthquake #Lithosphere #Mantle (geology) #Obduction #Oceanic crust #Seafloor spreading #Seismology #Subduction #Tectonics #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.005

published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters 233(3-4), 337-349 (Elsevier BV)

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