Partial advection of equidensity surfaces: A solution for the dynamic topography problem?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 24655-24667

  Le Stunff, Yves ^a,b   Richard, Yanick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; PARTIAL ADVECTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031417941     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb02346     Document Type: Article

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