Cold cratonic roots and thermal blankets: How continents affect mantle convection

International Geology Review

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 479-496

  Trubitsyn, Valery P ^a   Mooney, Walter D ^a   Abbott, Dallas H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRATON; CRUSTAL ROOT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MODELING; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0141724926     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.45.6.479     Document Type: Article

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