Slip-line field theory and large-scale continental tectonics

Nature

Volumn 264, Issue 5584, 1976, Pages 319-324

  Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Molnar, Peter ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000045214     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/264319a0     Document Type: Article

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