On the likelihood of plate tectonics on super-Earths: Does size matter?

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 725, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Korenaga, Jun ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Planetary systems; Planets and satellites:general

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650247464     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/725/1/L43     Document Type: Article

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