Growth and reworking of cratonic lithosphere

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3347-3353

  Zheng, YongFei ^a   Wu, FuYuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Continental crust; Craton; Lithospheric mantle; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350539161     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0458-y     Document Type: Article

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