An updated digital model of plate boundaries

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Bird, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Euler pole; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0942270129     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GC000252     Document Type: Article

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