How valid are dynamic models of subduction and convection when plate motions are prescribed?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 235-246

  Han, Lijie ^a   Gurnis, Michael ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mantle viscosity; Plate dynamics; Plate kinematics

Indexed keywords

MANTLE STRUCTURE; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0033540356     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(98)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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