Gravity-driven continental overflow and Archaean tectonics

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6726, 1999, Pages 413-415

  Bailey, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; EARLY EARTH; GRAVITATIONAL SPREADING; TECTONICS;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0033119088     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18866     Document Type: Article

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