Continental collision slowing due to viscous mantle lithosphere rather than topography

Marin Kristen Clark ()
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Marin Kristen Clark: University of Michigan

Nature, 2012, vol. 483, issue 7387, 74-77

Abstract: The rate of India’s convergence with Eurasia has decreased exponentially since their collision, which suggests that the deforming continental lithosphere creates a type of viscous resistance that affects plate motion irrespective of how topography evolved.

Date: 2012
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