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Rayleigh–Taylor instability and convective thinning of mechanically thickened lithosphere: effects of non-linear viscosity decreasing exponentially with depth and of horizontal shortening of the layer |
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| Authors: | Peter Molnar,Gregory A. Houseman,& Clinton P. Conrad |
| Affiliation: | Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia |
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| Keywords: | collision belts lithospheric deformation mantle convection mantle rheology orogeny. |