Principles of the tectonics of floating continents

Izvestiya - Physics of the Solid Earth

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 708-741

  Trubitsyn, V P ^a  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

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