| Title | Dynamics of periodic instabilities during stretching of the continental lithosphere; view from centrifuge models and comparison with natural examples |
| Author | Corti, G. |
| Author Affil | Corti, G., Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Florence, Italy |
| Source | Tectonics, 24(2), 19p. . Publisher: American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States. ISSN: 0278- 7407 |
| Publication Date | Apr. 2005 |
| Notes | In English. Includes appendices. 92 refs. GeoRef Acc. No: 287537 |
| Index Terms | Aegean Sea; Basin and Range Province; China; Greece--Cyclades; Mongolia; Turkey; Antarctica--West Antarctica; Aegean Islands; Antarctica; Asia; basins; brittle deformation; continental crust; crust; Cyclades; deformation; ductile deformation; East Mediterranean; Europe; experimental studies; extension; Far East; geodynamics; Greece; Greek Aegean Islands; lithosphere; mantle; mathematical methods; Mediterranean region; Mediterranean Sea; Middle East; models; North America; rheology; rift zones; sedimentary basins; Southern Europe; tectonics; West Antarctica |
| Abstract | Analogue models are used to investigate the development of periodic instabilities during a wide rifting mode of continental extension. The results of modeling support that unstable lithospheric extension is accompanied by development of regularly spaced structures at two characteristics wavelengths: a crustal (shorter) wavelength and mantle (longer) wavelength. Both wavelengths are dependent on the brittle/ductile decoupling (i.e., dominance of the brittle rheology of the upper crust over the ductile behavior), as an increase in the brittle layer thickness and a decrease in the extension velocity (decreasing the ductile resistance) lead to an increase in both crustal and mantle wavelengths. (MOD. JOURN. ABST.) |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10.1029/2004TC001739 |
| Publication Type | journal article |
| Record ID | 84743 |