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Earth's youngest exposed granite and its tectonic implications: the 10–0.8 Ma Kurobegawa Granite

Although the quest for Earth's oldest rock is of great importance, identifying the youngest exposed pluton on Earth is also of interest. A pluton is a body of intrusive igneous rock that crystallized from slowly cooling magma at depths of several kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth. The...

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Autores principales: Ito, Hisatoshi, Yamada, Ryuji, Tamura, Akihiro, Arai, Shoji, Horie, Kenji, Hokada, Tomokazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575581/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23419636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01306

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