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  3. Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    Brian F. Windley

  4. Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

    Atsushi Utsunomiya

  5. Institute of Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University, Misasa, Tottori, 682-0193, Japan

    Tsutomu Ota

  6. Public Relations Department, Public Relations Division, National Science Museum, Taito, Tokyo, 110-8718, Japan

    Yuko Uchio

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  2. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    Shigenori Maruyama

  3. Yale University, Connecticut, U.S.A.

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  4. University of Leicester, U.K.

    Brian F. Windley

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Utsunomiya, A. et al. (2007). History of the Pacific Superplume: Implications for Pacific Paleogeography Since the Late Proterozoic. In: Yuen, D.A., Maruyama, S., Karato, SI., Windley, B.F. (eds) Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5750-2_13

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