Continental mechanics

John Haines ()
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John Haines: University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories

Nature, 1998, vol. 391, issue 6668, 634-635

Abstract: In continental regions, the Earth's outer shell, the lithosphere, deforms because of the various strains put upon it. Such deformation is spread over hundreds to thousands of kilometres in horizontal extent. Taken together, observations and calculations from southern California and New Zealand, central Asia and Greece put our understanding of the mechanical properties of continental lithosphere on a new footing. The authors also offer the interpretation that deformation of the upper crust is being driven from below by flow of the upper-mantle part of the lithosphere.

Date: 1998
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