Delayed cooling of the Earth's mantle due to variable thermal conductivity and the formation of a low conductivity zone

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 199, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 403-413

  Van den Berg, Arie P ^a   Yuen, David A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Cooling; Mantle; Secular variations; Thermal conductivity; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

COOLING; MANTLE PROCESS; SECULAR VARIATION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0036300212     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00531-9     Document Type: Article

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