Generation of plumes under a localized high viscosity lid in 3-D spherical shell convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 947-950

  Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Iwase, Yasuyuki ^a   Honda, Satoru ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; GEOPHYSICS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL PLUMES; VISCOSITY; LITHOLOGY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

HIGH VISCOSITY LID; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL BLANKET EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPHERICAL SHELL CONVECTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; VISCOSITY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; FORMATION MECHANISM; MANTLE PLUME; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; HIGH VISCOSITIES; INFINITE PRANDTL NUMBER; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; PHASE CHANGE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SPHERICAL SHELL; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033117612     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900147     Document Type: Article

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