Heat flow scaling for mantle convection below a conducting lid: Resolving seemingly inconsistent modeling results regarding continental heat flow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1311-1314

  Lenardic, A ^a   Moresi, L ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; HEAT TRANSFER; LITHOLOGY;

MANTLE CONVECTION;

GEOPHYSICS; HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE; SCALE EFFECT;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONVECTING LAYERS; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MODEL RESULTS; RELATIVE THICKNESS; STABLE CONTINENTAL REGIONS; THICKNESS VARIATION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0035302693     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL008484     Document Type: Article

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