The Mississippi Embayment, North America: a first order continental structure generated by the Cretaceous superplume mantle event

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  2002

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  Journal of Geodynamics

• Publication date

  2002-09-01

• Fields of study

  Geology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0264-3707(02)00019-4
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