The plate tectonic approximation: plate nonrigidity, diffuse plate boundaries, and global plate reconstructions

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 615-642

  Gordon, Richard G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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PLATE TECTONICS;

EID: 0031662575     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.615     Document Type: Article

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