How plumes help to break plates

Susanne Buiter ()
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Susanne Buiter: Susanne Buiter is at the Geological Survey of Norway, 7040 Trondheim, Norway, and the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, Norway.

Nature, 2014, vol. 513, issue 7516, 36-37

Abstract: Computer models show how hot material that rises from Earth's interior is affected by plate tectonics, producing unexpected irregularities in Earth's topography and assisting in the break-up of continental plates. See Letter p.85

Date: 2014
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