Counterclockwise rotation of the arctic alaska plate: Best available model or untenable hypothesis for the opening of the amerasia basin

Polarforschung

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 247-255

  Embry, Ashton F ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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