Slabs in the lower mantle - results of dynamic modelling compared with tomographic images and the geoid

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 241-257

  Steinberger, Bernhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geoid; Mantle flow; Slabs; Subduction history; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOID; LOWER MANTLE; MODELING; SLAB; SUBDUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034002915     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00172-7     Document Type: Article

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