A third way to rift continents

W. Roger Buck ()
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W. Roger Buck: W. Roger Buck is at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10960, USA.

Nature, 2013, vol. 499, issue 7457, 157-159

Abstract: Rifting of continents is usually explained by one of two mechanisms based on effects that originate far from the zone of rifting. Laboratory experiments show that this geodynamic process can also be caused by local effects.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/499157a

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