Use of mineral physics, with geodynamic modelling and seismology, to investigate flow in the Earth's mantle

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 659-689

  Blackman, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34247575386     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/70/5/R01     Document Type: Article

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