Dynamic topography, plate driving forces and the African superswell

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6699, 1998, Pages 269-272

  Lithgow Bertelloni, Carolina ^a,b   Silver, Paul G ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; ELEVATION; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE CONVECTION; PLATE MOTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032541564     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26212     Document Type: Article

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