Mantle plumes, mantle stirring and hotspot chemistry
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Vol. 99 (1-2) , 94-109
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(90)90073-7
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