Age constraints on Lower Paleozoic convection system: Magmatic events in the NW Iberian Gondwana margin

Gondwana Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1066-1079

  Díez Fernández, Rubén ^a   Castiñeiras, Pedro ^b   Gómez Barreiro, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Convection; Gondwana; Mantle dynamics; NW Iberia; Plume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855818766     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.07.028     Document Type: Article

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