Is the lower-mantle rheology Newtonian today?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2033-2036

  Van Den Berg, Arie P ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

EARTH MANTLE; LOWER MANTLE CONSTITUENTS; LOWER MANTLE RHEOLOGY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MELTING TEMPERATURE; NON NEWTONIAN RHEOLOGY; PRESSURE DEPENDENT RHEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT RHEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CREEP; MANTLE (LOWER); MANTLE CONVECTION; NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0030209505     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02065     Document Type: Article

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