Flow properties of continental lithosphere

Tectonophysics

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1987, Pages 27-63

  Carter, Neville L ^a   Tsenn, Michael C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0023470460     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(87)90333-7     Document Type: Article

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