The roles of boundary friction, basal shear stress and deep mantle convection in plate tectonics
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 5 (3), 161-164
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl005i003p00161
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