Rheological control of oceanic crust separation in the transition zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1821-1824

  Van Keken, P E ^a   Karato, S ^b   Yuen, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNETS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

CRUSTAL RECYCLING; DENSITY INVERSION; MINERAL PHYSICS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; SANDWICH MODEL; TRANSITION ZONES;

RECYCLING; GEOPHYSICS;

CRUSTAL RECYCLING; NEWTONIAN SANDWICH MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST SEPARATION; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY; TRANSITION ZONE;

MANTLE; OCEANIC CRUST; RECYCLING; RHEOLOGY; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 0030184126     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01594     Document Type: Article

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