How the growth and freeboard of continents may relate to geometric and kinematic parameters of mid-ocean spreading ridges
- 20 April 1989
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Tectonophysics
- Vol. 161 (3-4) , 343-349
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(89)90164-9
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