A model for the layered upper mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 197-212

  Gasparik, Tibor ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; LAYERING; MANTLE;

EID: 0030723666     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03240-2     Document Type: Article

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