Numerical simulations of the cooling of an oceanic lithosphere above a convective mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 45-64

  Dumoulin, Caroline ^a   Doin, Marie Pierre ^a   Fleitout, Luce ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cooling models; Numerical simulation; Oceanic lithosphere

Indexed keywords

COOLING; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE;

EID: 0034771164     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(01)00233-3     Document Type: Article

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