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African cratonic lithosphere carved by mantle plumes

How cratons, the ancient cores of continents, evolved since their formation over 2.5 Ga ago is debated. Seismic tomography can map the thick lithosphere of cratons, but its resolution is low in sparsely sampled continents. Here we show, using waveform tomography with a large, newly available dataset...

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Autores principales: Celli, Nicolas Luca, Lebedev, Sergei, Schaeffer, Andrew J., Gaina, Carmen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6941964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31900414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13871-2