Comment on: Determining magma flow in sills, dykes and laccoliths and their implications for sill emplacement mechanisms by Ken Thomson [Bulletin of Volcanology 70: 183-210]

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1139-1142

  Smallwood, John ^a  

^a Hess Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 50249093227     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-008-0203-4     Document Type: Note

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