Plume‐like upper mantle instabilities drive subduction initiation
- 11 February 2010
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 37 (3)
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl041535
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