Can hotter mantle have a larger viscosity?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 937-940

  Solomatov, V S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; GRAIN GROWTH; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GROWTH KINETICS; COOLING; CREEP; DYNAMICS; ENTHALPY; FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ACTIVATION ENTHALPIES; DIFFUSION CREEP; MANTLE CONVECTION MODELS; MANTLE DYNAMICS; POLYMORPHIC PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; SCALING ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS;

VISCOSITY; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHS SECULAR COOLING; MANTLE; SCALING ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY FLUID;

DIFFUSION CREEP REGIME; GRAIN SIZE; MANTLE; RHEOLOGY; SCALING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0029666557     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00724     Document Type: Article

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