On the competing roles of fault reactivation and brittle failure in generating plate tectonics from mantle convection

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 121, Issue , 2000, Pages 73-94

  Gurnis, Michael ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^b   Toth, John ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

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EID: 84899492477     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM121p0073     Document Type: Chapter

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