Can long-wavelength dynamical signatures be compatible with layered mantle convection?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2091-2094

  Čadek, Ondřej ^a   Čížková, Hana ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEISMOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

LAYERED MANTLE CONVECTION; LONG WAVELENGTH DYNAMICAL SIGNATURES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIC MODELS;

TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

GEOID; LONG WAVELENGTH SIGNAL; MANTLE CONVECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

CONVECTION MODEL; IMPERMEABLE BOUNDARY; LAYERED MODEL; LONG WAVELENGTH; MANTLE CIRCULATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE VISCOSITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHIC MODELS;

EID: 0031200967     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02054     Document Type: Article

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