Flattening of the sea-floor depth-age curve as a response to asthenospheric flow

Nature

Volumn 359, Issue 6395, 1992, Pages 524-527

  Morgan, Jason Phipps ^a   Smith, Walter H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; SEA FLOOR FLATTENING;

EID: 0027084610     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/359524a0     Document Type: Article

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