A rigorous tool for evaluating the importance of viscous dissipation in sill formation: It's in the tip

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 304, Issue , 2008, Pages 71-81

  Bunger, Andrew P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSIPATION; ELASTIC PROPERTY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMA; SILL;

EID: 69549139178     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP304.4     Document Type: Article

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