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Hamilton 2003

Hamilton, W.B. (2003). An alternative Earth. 13(11): 4-12.

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Keywords
670-km discontinuity, Archean, chemical fractionation, continental, crust, convection, crust, depletion, felsic composition, global, granites, greenstone, igneous rocks, lithosphere, lower mantle, mantle, mantle plumes, mechanism, metamorphic rocks, mid-ocean ridges, ocean floors, oceanic lithosphere, plate tectonics, plutonic rocks, Precambrian, rotation, schists, sea-floor spreading, spreading, centers, subduction, upper crust, 18, Solid-earth geophysics