What moves slabs?

Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-247

  Doglioni, C ^a   Cuffaro, M ^a   Carminati, E ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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