Iceland: The current picture of a ridge-centred mantle plume

Mantle Plumes: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-126

  Ruedas, Thomas ^a,b   Marquart, Gabriele ^c   Schmeling, Harro ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68046-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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