Impact of far-field stress distributions and thermo-rheological structure of continental lithosphere on mantle-lithosphere interactions.

E B Burov1, Alexander Koptev1, Taras Gerya2, Eric Calais3 and Sylvie D Leroy4, (1)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, Paris, France, (4)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, istep, Paris, France