Mantle convection simulations with rheologies that generate plate-like behaviour

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6703, 1998, Pages 686-689

  Trompert, Ron ^a   Hansen, Ulrich ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY;

ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY; VOLCANO;

EID: 0032531970     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27185     Document Type: Article

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