Plate tectonics, plate moving mechanisms and rifting

Tectonophysics

Volumn 215, Issue 1-2, 1992, Pages 9-34

  Ziegler, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; PLATE DRIVING MECHANISM; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING;

EID: 0027088809     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(92)90072-E     Document Type: Article

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