Cretaceous length of day perturbation by mantle avalanche

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 379-386

  Machetel, Philippe ^a   Thomassot, Emilie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Avalanches; Convection; Earth; Length of day; Mantle; Rotation

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DAY LENGTH; EARTH ROTATION; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PROCESS; PERTURBATION;

EID: 0037106937     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00785-9     Document Type: Article

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