Solely extension-related origin of the eastern to west-central Mexican Volcanic Belt (Mexico) from partial melting inversion model

Current Science

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 713-719

  Verma, Surendra P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENERGÍAS RENOVABLES   (Mexico)

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