Mantle convection and plate motion history: Toward general circulation models

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 121, Issue , 2000, Pages 289-307

  Richards, Mark A ^a   Bunge, Hans Peter ^b   Lithgow Bertelloni, Carolina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 84990211655     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM121p0289     Document Type: Chapter

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