North America plate is driven westward by lower mantle flow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Liu, Zhen ^a   Bird, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BASAL TRACTIONS; LOWER MANTLE; RIGID PLATE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SHEAR TRACTION; STRESS DIRECTIONS; TEST MODELS; THIN-SHELL MODEL;

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EID: 0038404757     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016002     Document Type: Article

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