Plate motion and mantle plumes

R. Dietmar Müller ()
Additional contact information
R. Dietmar Müller: R. Dietmar Müller is in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.

Nature, 2011, vol. 475, issue 7354, 40-41

Abstract: A model based on geophysical data from the Indian Ocean suggests that a mantle-plume head may once have coupled the motions of the African and Indian tectonic plates, and determined their respective speeds. See Article p.47

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/475040a Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:475:y:2011:i:7354:d:10.1038_475040a

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/475040a

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().