Dominant role of tectonic inheritance in supercontinent cycles

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 184-187

  Audet, Pascal ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Planetary Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FLEXURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; PHANEROZOIC; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONICS;

EID: 79952134866     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1080     Document Type: Article

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