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Treatise on Geophysics – Plate Tectonics

16 December, 20155 July, 2015 by Michael Chin

Wessel, P. & Müller, R. D. (2015). Plate Tectonics. Treatise of Geophysics, 2(6), 45-93. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4-00111-1.

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