History of the Pacific superplume: Implications for Pacific paleogeography since the late proterozoic

Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 363-408

  Utsunomiya, Atsushi ^a,c   Ota, Tsutomu ^a,d   Windley, Brian F ^b   Suzuki, Norihito ^a   Uchio, Yuko ^a,e   Munekata, Kuniko ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5750-2_13     Document Type: Chapter

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