Necking of the Crust and Lithosphere: a Reappraisal of Basic Concepts with Thermo-Mechanical Numerical Modeling

Pauline Chenin1, Stefan M Schmalholz2, Gianreto Manatschal1, Garry D Karner3 and Christopher A Johnson4, (1)University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France, (2)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)ExxonMobil Spring, Spring, TX, United States, (4)ExxonMobil Houston, Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX, United States