Viscous heating in heterogeneous media as applied to the thermal interaction between the crust and mantle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 513-516

  Schott, Bertram ^a,b   Yuen, David A ^b   Schmeling, Harro ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; HEAT LOSSES; HEATING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; VISCOUS FLOW;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; THERMAL INTERACTION; VISCOUS HEATING;

GEOPHYSICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE PROCESS; VISCOSITY;

DEFORMATION RATES; DISSIPATION RATES; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; NON-NEWTONIAN RHEOLOGY; THERMAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0033557769     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900257     Document Type: Article

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