Inevitability of plate tectonics on super-earths

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 670, Issue 1 PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Valencia, Diana ^a   O'Connell, Richard J ^a   Sasselov, Dimitar D ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Planetary systems; Planets and satellites: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049107181     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524012     Document Type: Article

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