Imaging cold rock at the base of the mantle: The sometimes fate of slabs?

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 96, Issue , 1996, Pages 369-384

  Wysession, Michael E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84995269597     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM096p0369     Document Type: Chapter

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