Material circulation through time: Chemical differentiation within the mantle and secular variation of temperature and composition of the mantle

Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 187-234

  Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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