Plate tectonics: Magma does the splits

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7100, 2006, Pages 251-252

  Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMA; PLATE TECTONICS;

AFRICA; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; ASTRONOMY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ETHIOPIA; LAND BIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL; SOMALIA; VOLCANO;

EID: 33746358839     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/442251a     Document Type: Short Survey

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