The role of mantle plumes in continental breakup: Case histories from Gondwanaland

Nature

Volumn 377, Issue 6547, 1995, Pages 301-308

  Storey, Bryan C ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GONDWANA; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; SUPERCONTINENT;

DYNAMICS; HYPOTHESIS; MODEL; PLUME;

EID: 0029500916     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/377301a0     Document Type: Article

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