Mantle exhumation at passive margins

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 161-173

  Brun, J P ^a   Beslier, M O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Lab de Geodynamique Sous Marine   (France)

Author keywords

Deformation; Lithosphere; Mantle; Passive margins

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MANTLE; MANTLE PROCESSES; PASSIVE MARGIN; PASSIVE MARGINS;

ATLANTIC, IBERIAN MARGIN;

EID: 0029853088     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00080-5     Document Type: Article

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