Evolution of viscous stresses in the mantle and in moving continents in the process of the formation and breakup of a supercontinent

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 963-973

  Bobrov, A M ^a   Trubitsyn, V P ^a  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

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