Starting plumes and continental break-up

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 2-4, 1991, Pages 398-416

  Hill, Robert I ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; EXTENSION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LABORATORY ANALOGUE; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0025955979     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(91)90218-7     Document Type: Article

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