Effects of geometry on the convection with core-cooling

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 387-395

  Iwase, Yasuyuki ^a   Honda, Satoru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE CONVECTION; MODEL;

EID: 0032445329     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352125     Document Type: Article

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