Plate Tectonics through Time

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages 145-169

  Sleep, N H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Craton; Hadean; Lithosphere; Magma ocean; Sea floor spreading; Subduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882854479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00143-7     Document Type: Chapter

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