The role of shear heating in lubricating mantle flow

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 33-42

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

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Mantle; Plates; Rheology; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MANTLE FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR HEATING;

EID: 0031399964     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00110-6     Document Type: Article

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