Abstract

Dissimilar temperature profiles beneath oceans and continents give rise to thermoelastic stresses at and adjacent to the oceanic-continental margin. Computations of the magnitude and orientation of the maximum shear stress field reveal a zone of shear dipping beneath the continent from the margin.

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