Madagascar: Heads it's a continent, tails it's an island

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue , 2003, Pages 213-248

  de Wit, Maarten J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Extinctions; Phanerozoic; Precambrian; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ROCKS;

MICROCOSMS;

TECTONICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONTINENTAL CRUST; ISLAND; PLATE TECTONICS;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0141792735     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.141337     Document Type: Article

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