Plate tectonics or an expanding earth?

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 399-408

  Shields, Oakley ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Mesozoic; Expanding Earth; Palaeobiogeography; Plate Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EXPANDING EARTH; MESOZOIC; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0030478397     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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