The effect of convection planform on the toroidal-poloidal energy ratio

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 87-95

  Weinstein, Stuart A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Westchester Institute of Tectonics   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Mantle; Models; Plates

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MANTLE; RHEOLOGY;

GEOMETRY; HEAT CONVECTION; MODELS; PLATING; VELOCITY;

DEGREE OF SYMMETRY; EARTH'S SURFACE; LATE CRETACEOUS; MANTLE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SURFACE DEFORMATION; THERMAL CONVECTIONS;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 0031868580     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00208-2     Document Type: Article

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