Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-491-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-491-2018
Research article
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08 Feb 2018
Research article |  | 08 Feb 2018

Crustal heat production and estimate of terrestrial heat flow in central East Antarctica, with implications for thermal input to the East Antarctic ice sheet

John W. Goodge

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