Deep-mantle high-viscosity flow and thermochemical structure inferred from seismic and geodynamic data

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6832, 2001, Pages 1049-1056

  Forte, Alessandro M ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EARTH (PLANET); HEAT CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES; VISCOUS FLOW;

EARTH MANTLE;

SEISMOLOGY;

MINERAL;

DENSITY; MANTLE CONVECTION; RHEOLOGY; THERMAL CONVECTION; UPWELLING;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0035953681     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35074000     Document Type: Article

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