If the strong crust leads, will the weak crust follow?

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Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1998, Pages

  Axen, Gary J ^a   Selverstone, Jane ^b   Byrne, Timothy ^c   Fletcher, John M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

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