Program to study crust and mantle of the Archean craton in southern Africa

Eos

Volumn 77, Issue 29, 1996, Pages 273-277

  Carlson, Richard W ^a   Grove, Timothy L ^b   De Wit, Maarten J ^c   Gurney, John J ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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