Fractal features in mixing of non-Newtonian and Newtonian mantle convection

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 401-414

  Ten, Arkady ^a,b   Yuen, David A ^a   Podladchikov, Yu Yu ^c   Larsen, Tine B ^d   Pachepsky, Elizaveta ^a   Malevsky, Andrei V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convection; Fractals; Mantle; Mixing; Models; Rheology

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MANTLE; MIXING; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0030813456     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00244-0     Document Type: Article

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