Modelling planetary dynamics by using the temperature at the core-mantle boundary as a control variable: effects of rheological layering on mantle heat transport

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 219-234

  Van Den Berg, Arie P ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CREEP; MANTLE CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 0032514096     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00101-0     Document Type: Article

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