The Siberian lithosphere traverse: Mantle terranes and the assembly of the Siberian Craton

Tectonophysics

Volumn 310, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 1-35

  Griffin, W L ^a,b   Ryan, C G ^b   Kaminsky, F V ^a,c   O'Reilly, Suzanne Y ^a   Natapov, L M ^a   Win, T T ^b   Kinny, P D ^d   Ilupin, I P ^e  

^a GEMOC National Key Centre   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c KM Diamond Exploration   (Canada)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SIBERIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Archean; Craton; Kimberlites; Lithosphere; Mantle; Siberia

Indexed keywords

CRATON; KIMBERLITE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TERRANE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0033567579     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00156-0     Document Type: Article

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