Lost primordial continents

Gondwana Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 581-586

  Kawai, Kenji ^a   Tsuchiya, Taku ^b   Tsuchiya, Jun ^b   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Continents; Core mantle boundary; Density variation; Mantle transition zone; Plate tectonics; Tonalite trondhjemite granodiorite

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GONDWANA; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE SOURCE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 69749089477     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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