A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins

Luc L. Lavier () and Gianreto Manatschal
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Luc L. Lavier: Jackson School of Geosciences
Gianreto Manatschal: CGS-EOST, Université Louis Pasteur

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7082, 324-328

Abstract: Crustal thinning where continental plates break apart can be accomplished by a system of conjugate concave downward faults, instead of multiple normal faults, through exhumation of mid-crustal and mantle material.

Date: 2006
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