The relationship between rifting and magmatism in the northeastern Arabian Sea

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 463-467

  Minshull, Timothy A ^a   Lane, Christine I ^a   Collier, Jenny S ^b   Whitmarsh, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65349128169     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo228     Document Type: Article

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