Effects of plate and slab viscosities on the geoid

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 487-496

  Zhong, Shijie ^a   Davies, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geoid; Lithosphere; Models; Movement; Plate tectonics; Plates; Rheology; Subduction; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

GEOID; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0033618232     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00124-7     Document Type: Article

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