Mantle flow with existence of plates and generation of the toroidal field

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 573-587

  Ye, Zheng Ren ^a   Zhang, Xin W U ^a   Teng, Chun Kai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Forced convection; Free convection; Mixed convection model; Plate velocity field

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MANTLE FLOW; PLATE VELOCITY; TOROIDAL FIELD;

EID: 0029751849     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00874734     Document Type: Article

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