Mechanism of plate tectonics: mantle convection currents, plumes, gravity sliding or expansion?
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Tectonophysics
- Vol. 63 (1-4) , 297-307
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(80)90118-3
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