Transitions in thermal convection with strongly variable viscosity

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 201-212

  Ratcliff, James Todd ^a   Tackley, Paul J ^a   Schubert, Gerald ^a,b   Zebib, Abdelfattah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MANTLE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0031423962     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00013-7     Document Type: Article

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