Origins of the supercontinent cycle

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 439-448

  Damian Nance, R ^a   Brendan Murphy, J ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Plate tectonics; Secular trends; Supercontinent cycle; Tectonic episodicity

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; EPISODIC EVENT; PLATE TECTONICS; SECULAR VARIATION; SUPERCONTINENT;

EID: 84879413881     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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