Generation of mega-plumes from the core-mantle boundary in a compressible mantle with temperature-dependent viscosity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1999-2002

  Thompson, Paul F ^a,b   Tackley, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISCOSITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERE; THERMAL ACTIVATION ENERGY; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS;

THERMAL PLUMES; ACTIVATION ENERGY;

CORE/MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE PLUME; VISCOSITY;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; PLUME-LITHOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; SMALL-SCALE INSTABILITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; THERMAL ACTIVATION ENERGIES; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETER;

EID: 0032096362     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl01228     Document Type: Article

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