Physics
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29i..69p&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 9, pp. 69-1, CiteID 1355, DOI 10.1029/2001GL014354
Physics
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Tectonophysics: Continental Margins And Sedimentary Basins (1212), Tectonophysics: Continental Tectonics-Extensional (0905), Tectonophysics: Dynamics Of Lithosphere And Mantle-General, Tectonophysics: Rheology-Crust And Lithosphere, Structural Geology: Local Crustal Structure
Scientific paper
We present 2-D thermo-mechanical and numerical modeling at lithospheric scale to assess the impact of pre-existing lithosphere thickness contrast on rift localization. The results of the modeling suggest that thickness heterogeneity was responsible for focussing rifting and passive asthenospheric upwelling in the Permo-Carboniferous Oslo Graben at the western margin of the Fennoscandian Shield. These findings are consistent with inferences from recent studies showing that both the crust-mantle boundary and the base of the lithosphere are and were deeper at the eastern margin of the Oslo Graben, resulting in contrasting crust and lithosphere thickness.
Cloetingh Sierd A. P. L.
Davies Gareth R.
Pascal Christophe
van Wijk J. W.
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