Archean cratons and mantle dynamics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 1-14

  King, Scott D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratonic keel; Cratons; Heatflow; Mantle flow

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTH (PLANET); GEOPHYSICS; HEAT CONVECTION;

CHEMICAL BUOYANCY; CRATONIC KEELS; GEODYNAMIC MODELING; MANTLE CONVECTION;

EARTH SCIENCES;

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GEODYNAMICS;

EID: 18444393392     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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