Future supercontinent assembled in the northern hemisphere

Terra Nova

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 333-338

  Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Santosh, Madhava ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUPERCONTINENT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 80052628167     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01018.x     Document Type: Article

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